Quotes About Gratitude

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

To complain about the rain, or lack of it, shows a mind out of tune with nature. Align with nature, and, rain or shine, the weather is always welcome.

The Buddha's lesson: Do not wait for the moment of imminent death to taste life's sweetness. Savor it now. Every breath we take is precious. Treat it as such, and all of life becomes a luscious dessert.

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.

Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended.

Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.

We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not "What did I get out of it?" but rather "Was God pleased with what happened?

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

Consider earth, our home. Let your eyes savor the brilliant hues and delicate shadings of a summer sunset. Tunnel your toes into wet sand, stand still, and feel the dependable foam and spray of an ocean tide. Visit a butterfly garden and study the abstract designs: 10,000 variations, more imaginative than those of any abstract painter, all compressed into tiny swatches of flying fabric. Belief in a loving Creator is easy among these good things.

At the end of her story she said simply, "As I look back, this is what matters. I have loved and been loved, and all the rest is just background music.

As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

Why are we here? We, all of us, are here because of the Creator's love, who seeks both our flourishing and our response of love and gratitude. "Find out what pleases the Lord," Paul told the Ephesians. We are here to please God. It brings God pleasure to see us thrive, and we thrive by living as God intended.

Pain allows us, the fortunate ones at least, to lead free and active lives. If you ever doubt that, visit a leprosarium and observe for yourself a world without pain.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

I'm grateful that on my father's side I'm descended from a practical Welsh farmer. To that link with the soil I owe whatever measure of physical energy and stability I have.

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

The art of happiness is being content with what you have,' she would say, looking with apparent satisfaction out of the dusty windows at the garden, yellowing like an uncut hayfield in the October sunshine.

I would like you to have a beautiful day every day.

The one thing that Jane's death should teach us is that life is precious and every day is a gift that we should treasure.

When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner from the palace, and nothing more. We wanted nothing more.

But you remember this—great wealth or position is not a right, and you don't deserve it however hard you work. It is chance, and the labor of others, that brings a man wealth. Don't forget that others have earned your fortune for you. Never imagine you deserve it.

Happiness is wanting what you have. Being happy with what you've got. Enjoying it, and making it all it could be.

Thanks for coming over," Beth said as she opened the door for them. "I mean it." And from behind her, Caroline squeaked, "With you by my side, Elmer, we can do anything!" Everyone grinned, and Wally added, "Annabelle, I never thought I'd amount to much, but when I met you, everything changed!" "Cut it out," said Josh, turning red, but he was smiling too.

What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it!