"But the most obvious fact about praise - whether of God or anything - strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor.
"I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise .... The world rings with praise - lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their game .... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is appointed consummation."
C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1958), 94-95.
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