Quotes About Gratitude

Become less suspicious of joy.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

The point is that an $80,000 or a $180,000 salary does not have to be accompanied by an $80,000 or a $180,000 lifestyle. God is calling us to be conduits of his grace, not cul-de-sacs. Our great danger today is thinking that the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do. No matter how grateful we are, gold will not make the world think that our God is good; it will make people think that our god is gold. That is no honor to the supremacy of his worth.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS

Gloria lui Dumnezeu nu const? doar în perceperea perfecÈ›iunii Sale de c?tre creatura Sa, deoarece fiinÈ›a creat? poate s? perceap? puterea È™i înÈ›elepciunea lui Dumnezeu È™i totuÈ™i s? nu se bucure de ea, ci s-o urasc?.

Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

The world and even thousands of Christians give no praise and thanks to God for millions of daily, life-sustaining providences because they do not see the world as the theater of God's wonders. They see it as a vast machine running on mindless natural laws

the main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ's sake and count it gain.

If gratitude for the gospel is not rooted in the glory of God beneath the gift of God, it is disguised idolatry.

So I arrive at this definition of gratitude. Gratitude is a species of joy which arises in your heart in response to the goodwill of someone who does or tries to do you a favor.

Rejoicing without the content of Christ does not honor Christ.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

He once said that "there are but two lessons for Christians to learn: the one is, to enjoy God in everything; the other is, to enjoy everything in God.

God is not glorified if the foundation of our gratitude for the gospel is the worth of its gifts and not the value of the Giver. If gratitude for the gospel is not rooted in the glory of God beneath the gift of God, it is disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to see in the gospel the light of the glory of God in the face of Christ. May he grant us to delight in him for who he is, so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

It is radically humbling to confess that the source of all our joy resides outside ourselves.

Make this the year you stop complaining about your weaknesses, and instead search for their God-given purpose.

In other words, in all my rejoicing over all the good things that God has made, God himself is the heart of my joy, the gladness of my joy. In all my rejoicing in everything, there is a central rejoicing in God. Every joy that does not have God as its central gladness is a hollow joy and in the end will burst like a bubble. This is what led Augustine to pray, "He loves thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for thy sake."2

God's reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship.

The extent of our sacrifice coupled with the depth of our joy displays the worth we put on the reward of God.

The pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we have the itch of self-regard we shall want the pleasure of self-approval; but the happiest moments are those when we forget our precious selves and have neither but have everything else (God, our fellow humans, animals, the garden and the sky) instead.

No se te ocurra pensar: "Esta riqueza es fruto de mi poder y de la fuerza de mis manos". 18 Recuerda al Señor tu Dios, porque es Él quien te da el poder para producir esa riqueza… (Dt 8:17-18).