Quotes About Thankfulness

Oh what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh what an unspeakable privilege is prayer!

Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.

A man that fortune's buffets and rewardsHast ta'en with equal thanks.

Down on your knees,And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

Thank God, all you who have a spark of rational piety in your hearts, for the glorious commonplace of earth and sky,—for this cloud-embosomed planet in which you pass your lives.

The man who counts his blessings will not have time to count his enemies.

I used to believe that gratitude for life came from being happy, but I have come to realize that the reverse is also true, perhaps even more so: being happy comes from feeling grateful for life.

There may be no better gateway to happiness than cultivating our gratitude.

All that we behold is full of blessings.

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don't forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I'd love to do it for him, but I can't be everywhere.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

Thank fuck!

For all that has been: Thanks. For all that shall be: Yes.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

It is not happiness that makes us grateful It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy. Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens. It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.

Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a sense of the privilege of a particular form of participation, coming to know the way we hold the conversation of life and perhaps, above all, the miracle that there is a particular something rather than an abstracted nothing and we are a very particular part of that particular something.