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Quotes About Thankfulness

To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.
~ Barbara Brennan
Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.
~ Charles Stanley
...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
~ Patch Adams
No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
~ Albert Camus
Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.
~ Silken Laumann
Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.
~ Dwyane Wade
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
~ Adyashanti
To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.
~ Joel Osteen
When you are grateful, that allows God to do great things in your life.
~ Joel Osteen
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
~ David Steindl-Rast
We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?
~ Lewis Thomas
I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
~ Deborah Norville
I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.
~ Og Mandino
No one will ever know what her belief and enthusiasm meant at that particular time in my life. I wake up every day counting my lucky stars for Kerry and all the fantastic folks at Levine Greenberg Rostan (special thanks to Monika Verma and Elizabeth Fisher). They make me lovely.
~ Jennifer Niven
Every day of our lives, every Christian in this world is benefiting from the wisdom and talents of non-Christians. Let us humble ourselves and learn at Jesus' feet to be thankful for this constant reality.
~ Jerram Barrs
James Hufstetler is again helpful to us when he said, "You will never really enjoy other people, you will never have stable emotions, you will never lead a life of godly contentment, you will never conquer jealousy and love others as you should until you thank God for making you the way he did."[ 3]
~ Jerry Bridges
Those of us living in countries where religious freedom is allowed should regularly give thanks to God for that freedom.
~ Jerry Bridges
Paul said of his colaborer Titus, "I thank God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative" (2 Corinthians 8:16-
~ Jerry Bridges
It means we believe that God causes all events in our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances - not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God's promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.
~ Jerry Bridges
Sometimes when people get to be too nice, you end up not thanking them, because you are completely tired of saying thank you. Then they become more and more hangdog and you want to thank them even less.
~ Jesse Ball