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To praise God, means that all his life long a man glorifies, reverences and venerates the Divine Omnipotence. The praise of God is the meet and proper work of the angels and the saints in heaven, and of loving men on earth. God should be praised by desire, by the lifting up of all our powers, by words, by works, with body and with soul, and with whatsoever one possesses; in humble service, from without and from within. He who does not praise God while here on earth shall in eternity be dumb. To praise God is the dearest and most joyous work of every loving heart; and the heart which is full of praise desires that every creature should praise God. The praise of God has no end, for it is our bliss; and most justly shall we praise Him in eternity.

John of Ruysbroeck — John of Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, edited by Evelyn Underhill (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916), The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Second Book, ch. XIII, "Of Gratitude," p. 65

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John of Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, edited by Evelyn Underhill (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916), The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Second Book, ch. XIII, "Of Gratitude," p. 65

John of Ruysbroeck, John of Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, edited by Evelyn Underhill (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916), The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Second Book, ch. XIII, "Of Gratitude," p. 65 (archive.org) - John of Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, edited by Evelyn Underhill (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916), The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Second Book, ch. XIII, "Of Gratitude," p. 65

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