Top Praise Quotes
Praise Definition
(v.) To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.
(v.) To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being.
(v.) To value; to appraise.
(v.) Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.
(v.) Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.
(v.) The object, ground, or reason of praise.
Unassuming in manner, genial and kindly in his intercourse with his fellow-men, never showing impatience or irritation, devoid of personal ambition of the baser sort or of the slightest desire to exal...
Henry Andrews Bumstead
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A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky’s stars as a pattern...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration