Quotes about Gratitude

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.

Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?

An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.

Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.

I can whine —or— I can worship!

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this truth in mind when he said (in his essay on Compensation), "If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

If you attain fame and fortune, and do not attain gratitude along with it, the chances are that you will not enjoy that fame or that fortune.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.