We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
— Adrian Rogers
Perspective Praiseworthy quotations
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity.
That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.
Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.
Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it.
Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise.
Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
You can save a lot of time waiting on God.
It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.
Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?
Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it's changed my life.
There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible.
Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.
Anything that is excellent or praiseworthy stands moment by moment on the cutting edge and must be constantly fought for. Well placed priorities always sit on the edge.
You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh.
Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.
Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.
The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.
You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man.
How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.