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Quotes About Thankfulness

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.
~ George Herbert
Our Father, let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.
~ W. B. Slack
God receives little thanks, even for his greatest gifts.
~ Anonymous
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
~ Anonymous
Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.
~ O. Hallesby
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.
~ Bible
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
~ Saint Basil
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
~ W. E. Henley
Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.
~ Irish saying
I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
~ Jack Dempsey
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I thank you for not snoring.
~ Marlon Brando
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.
~ William Shakespeare
This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
~ Bible
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
~ Martial
Thank God, there is no such thing as ambition in that blessed world above the stars...
~ Charles Lanman
Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.
~ Cicero
Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.
~ J.M. Coetzee
All right, I thought, as one long-winded winner (And I'd like to thanks my parakeet and his veterinarian...) finally exited
~ J.M. Redmann
he wanted to prostrate at newton's alter and weep with gratitude for the blessing that made all things fall to the goddamn ground
~ J.R. Ward
I still think that every time I see you, after I've spent some time away from you. Thank God … he's here. ~ Marissa to Butch
~ J.R. Ward
I've said I was sorry," Qhuinn intoned. "But I don't think I've ever said thank you. So, yeah… thank you.
~ J.R. Ward