26 Nov Gratitude

gratitude: the state of being grateful; thanksgiving

Today, especially, I hope you will set aside time to give thanks, express gratitude and feel joy. To perhaps help you get there….consider these thoughts and expressions of gratitude:

“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
-Psalm 107:1

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
-French proverb

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues but the parent of all others.”
-Cicero

“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
-Estonian Proverb

“Enter His gates with thanksgiving; enter His courts with praise. Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name…”
-Psalm 100:4

“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
-G. K. Chesterton

“Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
-Ephesians 5:19-20

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
-Doris Day

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
-Johannes A. Gaertner

“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”
-Satchel Paige

“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.”
-Elie Wiesel

“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
-Henry Ward Beecher

“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God concerning you in Christ Jesus.”
-1 Thessalonians 5:18

“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”
-Jacques Maritain

“Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.”
-Charles E. Jefferson

“I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.”
-Helen Keller

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
-Marcel Proust

“Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.”
-Thomas Aquinas

“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take and eat; this is my body.'”
-Matthew 26:26

I, for one, give thanks for you.

Blessings,
Morgan