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• While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Giving, Inspire, Style

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• Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Passion, Blood

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise...Blessed are those whose strength is in you...blessed is the one who trusts in you!

  David

  Christian, Blessed, House

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• My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.

  David

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Heart

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 57: I Will Cry Unto God Most High”

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• Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can't disturb it. You can't hear things in the Spirit while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can't take a shade of fear into the presence of God.

  Rees Howells

  Trusting Him, Giving, Devil

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• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  Taliesin

  World, Sovereign, Royal

  Taliesin, “The Spoils Of Annwfn”

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• A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.

  Walt Disney

  Prayer, Promise, Levels

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Umpires, Confusion

  Collected Poems introduction (1953)

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• I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Names, Light, Land

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• When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Humility, Buddhism

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• Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Appreciation

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• I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Humility, Fighting, Acceptance

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• Be who you are nothing more nothing less, and let the beauty that you love be the very best. Sing praises to the highest with your feet on the ground, and reach for your brother with the words that you sound, and don't let mistakes be so monumental, and don't let your love be so confidential, and don't let your mind be so darn judgmental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all the Spirit provides, And be thankful for all that you can see without eyes, Give thanks to music that keeps us alive, And give thanks to all DJs worldwide.

  Michael Franti

  Brother, Mistake, Eye

  FaceBook post by Michael Franti and Spearhead from Oct 19, 2015

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• I praise the God of grace;
  I trust His truth and might;
  He calls me His, I call Him mine.
  My God, my joy and light

  Horatius Bonar

  Light, Joy, Grace

  Horatius Bonar (1864). “Hymns of Faith and Hope: Second Series”, p.113

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• There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Scoundrels, Given, Occasions

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The Big Stick, 1905-1909”

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• The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

  Richard Bode

  Criticism, Shadow, Different

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• Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.

  Ibn Arabi

  Ignorance, Missing, Matter

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• Perhaps you went to bed last night thinking about the overdue bills, the lack of finances, the problematic people and situations you have to face. This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? If you didn't, it is probably because you forgot that when praise goes up, the blessings come down. That should be enough to inspire you to be thankful.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Morning, Blessing, Night

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from May 07, 2016

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• Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.

  Jacques Barzun

  Excellence, Calling, Excellent

  "Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning" by Jacques Barzun, ("Schooling No Mystery"), 1991.

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• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Void, May

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.

  Coventry Patmore

  Women, Vanity, Giving

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Stupid, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)

  Randall Jarrell

  Cutting, Artist, People

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 29), 1955.

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• You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

  Evan Esar

  Doctors, Giving, Judging

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• An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Actors, Infinite

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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