C. S. Lewis Quotes About Praise

• Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Joy, Elements, Praise

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.30, Faber & Faber

• The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

  C. S. Lewis

  Praise, Crank, Made

• The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Care, Speak

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

• But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Thinking, Games

  "Joyful Christian".

• The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mind, Praise, Humans

• Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Vanity, People

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.110, HarperCollins UK

• When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gratitude, Doors, Silence

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.6, Faber & Faber

• The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Two, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Delight, Lovers

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

• People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Body, Praise

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.117, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Have you not seen that in our days
  Of any whose story, song or art
  Delights us, our sincerest praise
  Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Art, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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