{"id":8358,"date":"2016-08-16T23:50:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/praise\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:50:36","slug":"praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/praise\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Psalm 34.1 nrsv<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Psalm 149:3<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Isaiah 12:5<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u2026 a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Isaiah 61:3<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both small and great!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Revelation 19:5<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There is nothing that pleases the Lord so much as praise.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God can never receive too much praise.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Mans chief work is the praise of God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Augustine of Hippo<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Let us sing how the eternal God, the author of all marvels, first created the heavens for the sons of men as a roof to cover them, and how their almighty Protector gave them the earth to live in.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Caedmon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Epictetus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The prophetic spirit orders that God be praised with cymbals of jubilation and with the rest of the musical instruments which the wise and studious have created, since all the arts are brought to life by that breath of life which God breathed into the body of man: and therefore it is just that God be praised in all things.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Hildegard of Bingen<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If any one would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing. Could you, therefore, work miracles, you could not do more for yourself than by this thankful spirit; for it heals with a word, and turns all that it touches into happiness.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>William Law<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A man should utter a hundred daily benedictions.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Rabbi Meir<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Let us, with a gladsome mind,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Praise the Lord, for he is kind:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>For his mercies aye endure,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Ever faithful, ever sure.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Let us blaze his name abroad,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>For of gods he is the God:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He, with all-commanding might,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Filled the new-made world with light:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>All things living he doth feed,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>His full hand supplies their need:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He his chosen race did bless<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In the wasteful wilderness:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Let us then with gladsome mind<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Praise the Lord, for he is kind.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Milton<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When we wake up each morning, if praise of the Risen Christ were to fill our hearts \u2026 then in the monotony of daily life, an inner surge of vitality would reveal our hidden longing.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Brother Roger<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>One day all Christians will join in a doxology and sing God\u2019s praises with perfection. But even today, individually and corporately, we are not only tosing the doxology, but to be the doxology.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Francis Schaeffer<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Look at the very birds on earth \u2013 how they shame us!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Dear little creatures, if you watch them when they are singing, you will sometimes wonder how so much sound can come out of such diminutive bodies.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>How they throw their whole selves into the music, and seem to melt themselves away in song!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>How the wing vibrates, the throat pulsates, and every part of their body rejoices to assist the strain!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>This is the way in which we ought to praise God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Thomas Watson<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In vain the first-born seraph tries to sound the depths of love divine.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Charles Wesley<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The sweetest of all sounds is praise.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Xenophon<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. The Bible, Psalm 34.1 nrsv Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp. 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