Quotes About Thankfulness

Now I say two prayers a day. I say please in the morning and thank you every night.

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.

Gratitude is the smile of love.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say thank you.

Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Tahu berterima kasih adalah tanda sikap ksatria.

to the late Mrs. Tsukamoto I offer my kansha—my gratitude and appreciation—for her work.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf.

To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.

learn to desire what you already have, and you will have all you need.

In normal life one is not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness. —DAVID STEINDL-RAST

Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be continually taking its temperature. The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more assuredly and consistently will community increase and grow from day to day as God pleases

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

Therefore, let those who until now have had the privilege of living a Christian life together with other Christians praise God's grace from the bottom of their hearts. Let them thank God on their knees and realize: it is grace, nothing but grace, that we are still permitted to live in the community of Christians today.32

If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if, on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Jesus Christ.

The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more assuredly and consistently will community increase and grow from day to day as God pleases.

Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts he has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts.

We do not complain of what God does not give us; we rather thank God for what He does give us daily.