21 Awesome Quotes to Make You Shout to the Lord
God loves enthusiasm! He loves it when we shout and sing our praises to Him. Here are some quotes and Bible verses about singing – no, shouting! – praises to God!
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And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
- Mark 11:9
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The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.
- Richard Sibbes
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
- Jonathan Edwards
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Any victory that does not more than conquer is just an imitation victory. While we are suppressing and wrestling, we are only imitating victory. If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, "Hallelujah! Praise the Lord" forever.
- Watchman Nee
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Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.
- Rick Warren
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Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”
- Isaiah 12:6
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Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.
- William Law
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Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.
- Psalm 33:1
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We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
- Albert Barnes
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God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.
- Jeremy Taylor
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I was delivered from the burden that had so heavily suppressed me. The spirit of mourning was taken from me, and I knew what it was to truly rejoice in God my Savior.
- George Whitefield
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Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?
- Charles Spurgeon
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Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
- Psalm 150:6
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Whatever troubles are weighing you down are not chains. They are featherweight when compared to the glory yet to come. With a sweep of a prayer and the praise of a child's heart, God can strip away any cobweb.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
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Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. He had joy, singing its music within, even under the shadow of the cross.
- S.D. Gordon
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We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.
- J. C. Ryle
Now give glory to God with a shout of praise!