Pastoral Resources

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

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.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.