The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. – Hosea Ballou
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But. – Henry Ward Beecher
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 15:9 – Bible