Thanks Quotes - Page 6

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

All that we behold is full of blessings.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

I could endure hard times thanks to my fans that stood by me. I decided that I wouldn't disappoint them.

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

Gratitude is heaven itself.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Rarely do we realize that if we simply take time to marvel at life’s gifts and give thanks for them, we activate stunning opportunities to increase their influence in our lives.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.