Quotes About Thankfulness

The latter therapy has its roots in a philosophy called Naikan, developed by Ishin Yoshimoto. Naikan reminds people to be grateful for everything. If you are sitting in a chair, you need to realize that someone made that chair, and someone sold it, and someone delivered it—and you are the beneficiary of all that. Just because they didn't do it especially for you doesn't mean you aren't blessed to be using it and enjoying it.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?

After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

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

And the plot of all is, that he might gather these all together at last in heaven—some of which are already there, others of them at present on earth, and some yet unborn—and, when they shall all meet together in one glorious choir, that there they may, by their triumphant songs and hallelujahs, fill the heavens with praiseful acclam ations of thankfulness to the glory of that mercy which hath thus pardoned and saved them.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

day, and we thank you for life and for all things. You are our mother. You feed us, you clothe us, you shelter us, and you comfort us. For this we thank you and honor you.

Yeah." Parrant gave him a brief smile of thanks. But he was a man way on the other side of something terrible, and the look in his eyes came from far, far away.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing.

Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a being which, were it to continue, would become ineligible: but I thank providence, both for the good which I have already enjoyed, and for the power with which I am endowed of escaping the ills that threaten me.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it is sufficient. Meister Eckhart

9th August, 1872.—I do most devoutly thank the Lord for His goodness in bringing my men near to this. Three came to-day, and how thankful I am I cannot express. It is well—the men who went with Mr. Stanley came again to me. "Bless the Lord, my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name." Amen.

God is the greatest. So at the end of the day and beginning of the day, I thank God.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

In the middle of my little mess, I forget how BIG I'm blessed!

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.