Quotes About Gratitude

This was surely the worst summer of her life. She was very thankful that it was almost at an end.

I could not possibly want anything more.

It was you who made my growing years bearable . . . You gave me everything you were able to give—you gave me love. It has been enough. It is the only thing that really matters, you know.

It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.

There was such a thing as happiness, and it would be silly not to enjoy it when one felt it rather than shy away from it for fear it would not last.

How did Uncle Ben put it last night? It has led us to peace and hope. And love.

The second Morgan son, Rick, had changed in more ways than Deke could count since he'd been shot six months ago. He'd taken medical leave and gone back to school. "Near death experiences," he'd said, "have a way of lining up all the stray ducks in your life.

I've been spending my life among flyspecks... while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 4th and Fairfax

Trace, the lengths you've gone to in taking care of us is nothing short of heroic. You are a blessed miracle from God, you and your men. You saved us and now you care for us. It's the Bible's very definition of a Christian.~ Deb

Why, he had once wondered, would a perfect God create the universe? To be generous with it, he believed now. For the pleasure of seeing pure gifts appreciated. Maybe that's what it meant to find God: to see what you have been given, to know divine generosity, to appreciate the large things and the small Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life's normal condition. So, as the first weeks after the massacre passed, she simply counted herself lucky to be among others who did not weep and wail for the dead.

hope you know how much he appreciates your care," Alex told the Earps. "For I was sick, and you came to me," Wyatt said. "Nah," Morgan said. "It was selfishness." Wyatt and Alex were both surprised, but Morgan just shrugged. "Doc doesn't have any brothers," he told Alex. "So we took him for our own.

I am where I want to be, they each thought. I am grateful to be here. In their own ways, they all gave themselves up to God's will and trusted that whatever happened now was meant to be. At least for the moment, they all fell in love with God.

He wondered then if Jesus expected gratitude as Lazarus emerged, stinking, from the crypt. Maybe Lazarus was a disappointment to everyone, too.

Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God.

I've been very active in a lot of charities because I firmly believe that much is expected of those to whom much has been given

Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self – delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving.

Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.

But because of you, I couldn't die and couldn't monster myself, either. So you were the agent of my rescue—not a good job for somebody barely three feet tall. Blameless

Halcyon days," he repeated. "I guess you don't know you're living them until years later, looking in the rearview mirror.

Maybe he was. Maybe he had something to smile about these days.

Praying It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. --from WHEN DEATH COMES