Quotes About Gratitude

True gratitude must be rooted in something else that comes first, namely, a delight in the beauty and excellency of God's character.

If we are not captured by his personality and character, then all our declarations of thanksgiving are like the gratitude of a wife to a husband for the money she gets from him to use in her affair with another man.

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

What makes born-again people glad is not at bottom that they have God's gifts but that they have God.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.

Does an iris," he asked, tracing such a flower on the wall, "seek to repay the sun which gave it life? No, the mere beauty of the iris is tenfold thanks enough, for each day the sun can see the wonder it created.

But why think about what was wrong when you could be thinking about what was right?

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

Everyone who receives protection from the society owes a return for the benefit.

S'il y a des gens pour contester une opinion reçue ou pour désirer le faire si la loi ou l'opinion publique le leur permet, il faut les en remercier, ouvrir nos esprits à leurs paroles et nous réjouir qu'il y en ait qui fassent pour nous ce que nous devrions prendre davantage la peine de faire, si tant est que la certitude ou la vitalité de nos convictions nous importe.

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

It's the simple things we miss, she thought.

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.