Thoughts to Live By - through the heart of praise and worship

• “In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.” - Saint Aurelius Augustine

• It is for the sake of man, not God, that worship and prayers are required; that man may be made better – that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists. – Hugh Blair

• “Worship is not just something you do its something you become.” - Stephen Bennett

• “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." -Henry Ward Beecher

• “Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you” – Nicholas Boileau

• “Don’t let life affect your worship; let your worship effect life”— LaMar Boschman

• “An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach

• “Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing of blessing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the mama did when it was hoarded [Exodus 16]. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself, it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.” – Oswald Chambers

• “It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.” - Miguel de Cervantes

• “Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.” - Lord Chesterfield

• “Praise the bridge that carried you over.” - George Colman

• “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.” - A. W. Tozer

• “You can't let praise or criticisms get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.” - John Wooden

• “Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.”- Martin Yan

• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” - Oprah Winfrey