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“Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible.”

“I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.”

Men Life Heart Has Beens Use Pain Desire Names Dark Bears Lovers Despair Praise Filled Silent Calm Dear Streams Cheat Astonishment Splendour Perplexed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea

“All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?”

Should Use Novel Praise Shells Should I Spares

Author:Howard Jacobson

“Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.”

People Ifs Knows Enough Use Law Capitalism Advantage Economics Direct Criticism Tests Praise Referring Comparative Advantage

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

Men Giving Enough Use Jesus Christ Forget Grace Share Glory Jesus Christ Praise Instruments Forget Him Christ Alone

Author:A. B. Simpson

“That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.”

Ifs Writing Mind Book Use Would Be Virtue Position Praise Mirrors Conclusion Satan Authorship Ostentation

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”

Giving Use Past Worship Praise Dues Times Past

Author:Ovid

“We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.”

Way Use Criticism Praise Dare Defects Rebound

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.”

Men May Use Happens Certain Cases All Things Constitution Praise Worthy Harm Accidents Affected

Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man. You start thinking about how winning will lead to more money. There are a lot of sin issues inside of that. So now when I go into competition, I have to take my thoughts captive and use God's Word to fight that battle.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want God Use Happens Fighting Winning Fear Sin Money Worry Issues Battle Praise Competition More Money My Thoughts Richness Captives

Author:David Boudia

“Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.”

Want Use Basketball Behavior Praise Coaching Basketball Coaching

Author:Dean Smith

“When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.”

Men World Made Use Artist Community Chance Majors Towns Praise Frank Our Town

Author:Paul Goodman

“We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different ways to preach. You can preach by praising. You can preach by preaching sermons. You can preach by just giving someone food when they're hungry. There are people who will never darken a church door but they will come to see a play.”

People Way Needs Giving Different Play Use Church Doors Media Praise Hungry Different Ways Preaching Sermons

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him you may give him praise, love and glory.”

Ifs Giving Heart May Soul Use Body Asks Jesus Christ Lord Members Glory Jesus Christ Praise Breaths Serving Faculty Our Lord Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord Jesus Christ

Author:John Eudes

“Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All of creation-human and nonhuman alike-exists ultimately for God and to the praise of God.”

Humans Use Purpose Creation Praise Independent Environmental Stewardship

Author:Rodney Clapp

“You have to use food motivation whereas a dog will do things for you just for social motivation, praise and petting. Also with any animal you want to stroke it. Don't pat it, stroke it. Most don't like patting.”

Want Use Motivation Social Animal Dog Praise Strokes

Author:Temple Grandin

“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.”

Soul Helping Use Spiritual Angel Praise Affair Invisible Assistance Invoke Angelic Guardian Angel Always With You My Guardian Angel

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.”

Source: Still Another Day

“A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.”

Should Mind Art Use Christian Glory Praise Glory Of God Doxology

Book:Art and the Bible

Source: Art and the Bible

“if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight”

Ifs Needs Giving Use Half Building Praise Praise God Need God

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use”

Source: Browning: Poems

“May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.”

“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.”

Thinking Looks Heart Use History Forever Praise Delight Look Up Descendants Art History Praise And Thanksgiving

Author:John Ruskin

“If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.”

Ifs Thinking Use Heaven Ready Worship Praise Foolish Broccoli Spinach

Book:Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

Source: Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

“It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.”

“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”

Writing Use Might Spirit Names Knowing Fame Praise Tongue Tied Tongue Tied

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

“The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.”

May Use Teaching Ought Praise

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.”

Ifs Way Life Years Stills Use Care Running Together Order Courses Parent Knowledge Trouble Middle Dangerous Gains Praise Punishment Boundaries Pursue Limitless Care For You

Author:Zhuangzi

“For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.”

Way Love Children Persons Use Values Father Poet Praise Fortune Productions Riches Companion Plato Disagreeable

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand, correcting him without creating fear, praising him properly, and doing it all at the proper time are critical skills to develop if your dog is to learn from you.”

Ifs Way Use Voice Knowing Dog Skills Creating Praise Critical Make Sense Correcting Dog Lover Using Words Proper Time Creating Fear

Author:Brian Kilcommons

“One should use praise to recognize what one is not.”

Inspirational Should Use Literature Praise

Author:Elias Canetti

“I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.”

Use Common Praise Apparel

Author:John Knox

“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 skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.”

People Ifs Thinking Want May Mean Long Has Beens Use Choices Jesus Given Heaven Hell One Thing Ready Praise Foolish Reserved Skip Jesus Love Broccoli Spinach Choosing One

Author:Matt Chandler

“I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use it as a shield. I'm guilty of it too. I think spiritual words can do one or the other. Because when I hear people say, in a religion setting, 'Glory,' 'Praise the Lord,' 'Hallelujah,' but it doesn't mean anything, those are actually words that distance us from God, ironically enough.”

People Thinking Mean Sometimes Enough Use Spiritual Spirituality Can Do Lord Glory Praise Distance Setting Settings Guilty Vehicle Shields Hallelujah Praise The Lord

Author:Jon Foreman

“Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.”

Men May Said Soul Facts Use Money Poverty Successful Rich Talent Development Praise Remains Plenty Height Successful Life

Book:The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

“...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change. They dance for joy around the First Light, look continuously towards Him and are enlightened directly by Him, as they tirelessly sing the praises of the Fount of light and, being ministers of light, transmit illuminating grace to those lower beings who are being enlightened.”