When I visited George Bernard Shaw, in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about Ingersoll. During the course...

When we live a life of contentment and satisfaction we provide the enemy with fewer foot holes to tempt us with. A fulfilled life leaves the adversary little room for traps. Temptation is harder to...

It rains on everyone. It may be storming but there is a covering.Life may be challenging, but there is a covering.It may seem impossible, hopeless, doubtful, fear-ridden, and pain-laden, but there is a covering. There...

Life is always beautiful when we focus on the greatness of our God.

Nature, … in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity...

Neither blame or praise yourself.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

{Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll, 1894}I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men would take you more for a guide than they do, or seem to do. You...

Praise first the mighty blessing of yourself!

Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy’s intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares...

The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton’s opinion of the great }

Hope prevails in the dark. Like a lighthouse calling out to a lost ship at sea, hope will bring you through every personal storm. It is our encouragement and guide to safety. Hope is found...

This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.

Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.

It’s very strange that WE always wish to listen good for ourselves from others, but at the same time becomes tough for us to speak good for OTHERS.

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening.

GRAPE, n.Hail noble fruit! –by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam; Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am.The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer:...

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast...

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

Yea… It’s impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers… people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun

For me, it’s not about winning an award. It’s also about not even being nominated.

Don’t harness a child’s imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal

Know that when you praise and worship God and appreciate fully all that He is, you open up a channel through which more of His love pours into your heart.

The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely — noted events of that year in the civilized world. It was also one of the most widely and...

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

Let us not question whether God is there; let us praise Him that He is there.

Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.

There is a fear of God that adoration enfolds with arms of thanks. It acknowledges the absolute power of the Creator and the inconsequence of man. This holy and reverent fear is the beginning of...

Guess what, Jesus loves to walk with us. He loves to be with us all the time—not just in the scheduled time or in the leftovers. The only change He wants is our hearts.Let’s change...

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes...

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you’re likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.

Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn’t this attentiveness — the feeling that someone is trying to think about us — something we want more than...

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern...

Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole...

This is not the time to panic, this is the time to praise!

And if I please you so, my lover,Remember praise is comely.

The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing.

…praise does not make anything better or worse.

No longer bound by fear, how high can we soar? How deep can we dive? How much delight can we experience? Yes, there will be sorrow too—it’s a part of the deal—but life gets the...

O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less; The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western...

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

how many times have I told you…

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.