Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.
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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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He holds the wire from this box of nerves Praising the moral error...
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Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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Acts 2:47:
Praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
(NIV)
Constantly praising God and being in favor and goodwill with all the people; and the Lord kept adding [to their number] daily those who were being saved [from spiritual death].
(AMP)
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
(KJV)
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
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Matthew 26:26:
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, 'Take and eat; this is my body.'
(NIV)
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread and, praising God, gave thanks and asked Him to bless it to their use, and when He had broken it, He gave it to the disciples and said, Take, eat; this is My body.
(AMP)
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
(KJV)
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
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