To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

The greatest compliment of the book One Thousand Gifts? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.