Quotes About Thankfulness

I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed. And we have honored that blessing. And that's why God has continued to bless us.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I'm so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that.

Take it and be thankful.

just as water was given certain responsibilities for sustaining the world, so were the people. Chief among their duties was to give thanks for the gifts of the earth and to care for them.

It's such a simple thing, but we all know the power of gratitude to incite a cycle of reciprocity

we are rooted in cultures of gratitude.

beginning with where our feet first touch the earth, we send greetings and thanks to all members of the natural world.

Let us pile up our thanks like a heap of flowers on a blanket. We will each take a corner and toss it high into the sky. And so our thanks should be as rich as the gifts of the world that shower down upon us

and we stand there together, grateful in the rain of blessings.

The land grew and grew as she danced her thanks, from the dab of mud on Turtle's back until the whole earth was made. Not by Skywoman alone, but from the alchemy of all the animals' gifts coupled with her deep gratitude.

I've heard it said that sometimes, in return for the gifts of the earth, gratitude is enough. It is our uniquely human gift to express thanks, because we have the awareness and the collective memory to remember that the world could well be otherwise, less generous than it is. But I think we are called to go beyond cultures of gratitude, to once again become cultures of reciprocity. I

When they abandoned gratitude, the gifts abandoned them.

It is said that the people were instructed to stand and offer these words whenever they gathered, no matter how many or how few, before anything else was done. In this ritual, their teachers remind them that every day, "beginning with where our feet first touch the earth, we send greetings and thanks to all members of the natural world.

It seems hard to argue with gratitude for berries.

By those (ceremonial) words we said "Here we are," and I imagined that the land heard us—murmured to itself, "Ohh, here are the ones who know how to say thank you.

We have now arrived at the place where we end our words. Of all the things we have named, it is not our intention to leave anything out. If something was forgotten, we leave it to each individual to send such greetings and thanks in their own way. And now our minds are one.

It is said that only humans have the capacity for gratitude. This is among our gifts.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

It sounds simple to say, almost simplistic, but all of us are connected by love and by gratitude.