Quotes About Gratitude

Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.

I want to tell my friends how beautiful / the world is. Not but what they know / it is terrible too--they know as well as I; / but nevertheless, I want to tell my friends. / Because they are. And this is what they are; / and because it is and this is what it is. / You are my friend. The world is beautiful. / Dear friend, you are. I want to tell you so.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. "It must be up there somewhere on the horizon," we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

No man has ever lived that had enoughOf children's gratitude or woman's love.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

All men by their nature give praise.It is allthey can do.

You did something for me I couldn't do for myself. You loved me for who I am.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

The good we never miss we rarely prize

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in this struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me. Certain

One who takes a favor or submits to patronage demeans himself. He falls under obligation. He

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

So, Christian, thou shouldst feast thyself with the joy of thy mercy, but save the remembrance of it as hope-seed, to strengthen thee to wait on God for another mercy and further help in a needful time.

The hypocrite in prayer juggles, he asks what he would not thank God to give him.