PRAISE

PRAISE – (Doxology) To glorify and give thanks to God or to speak highly of someone or something ^{(Judg. 5:3; Ps. 9:1-14; Rom. 15:11).} The most perfect and selfless type of prayer. The more pure and blameless a person is, the more the perfection of God is reflected in him, and through this he involuntarily calls forth happy words of praise and glory. Thus the angels in the heavens unceasingly glorify God in hymns. “Praise,” says Bishop Theophan the Recluse, “is not an indifferent contemplation of God’s attributes, but a living experience of them, full of joy and exaltation.”