I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
Every time I hit rock bottom, My Jesus picks me up, That why….. I praise Him so.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
All flowers are not to be picked; some are meant to stay rooted so their beauty may continue to sing praises unto nature.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
