#praise

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them? ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#appraise #blunder #cannot #chiefly #even

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. ↗

— Jean Paul

#flatter #people #praise #simpler #than

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life. ↗

— Judge Reinhold

#after #approval #away #because #break

Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular, she may miss the supernatural. If a person enters a gathering to be wowed with something impressive, with a style that fits him just right, with an order of service and song selection designed just the right way, that person may miss the supernatural presence of God. Worship is supernatural whenever people come hungry to respond, react, and receive from God for who He is and what He has done. A church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from the Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise-the only proper response to the God who saves us. ↗

— Matt Chandler

#praise-and-worship #sunday-worship #worship #design

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

— C.S. Lewis

#love #praise #love

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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#praise #men

...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips... ↗

— John Geddes

#praise #words #worship #love

I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #magic-bleeds #praise #saiman #ilona-andrews

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. ↗

— John Adams

#beloved #considered #desire #discovered #dispositions