I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.
London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.
Friar Tuck: Praise the Lord, and pass the tax rebate!
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to s...
I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated, the ones who are so intriguing that new men fall in love with them every day, at every meal whe...
If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we h...
The Christian right, which trumpets the theme of family values, damns contemporary culture for undermining older traditions. Yet many individuals from this camp are not concerned first and foremost about family values per se. Family is a codeword for...
Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shape...
Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is finally an end in itself. Thinking is not the goal of life. Thinking can be the ground for boasting. Thinking, without prayer, with...
The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
