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The Appetite for Praise

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 17, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 11.

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The Appetite for Praise

Praise is to most minds what delicately seasoned food is to the sense of taste; and, therefore, as the Abbe Roux observes, "In the matter of praise we rather consult our appetite than our health." Hence he who so feeds on the "praise of men" as to lose his relish for the praise of God, becomes sick unto spiritual death.—Selected.