Pastoral Resources

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

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

Their silence is praise enough.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

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.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

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.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.