Quotes about Gratitude
What makes born-again people glad is not at bottom that they have God's gifts but that they have God.
— John Piper
The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.
— John Piper
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?
— John Piper
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
— John Quincy Adams
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.
— John Wesley
And I am the rather induced to do what little I can in this way, because I can do nothing else: being prevented, by my present weakness, from either travelling or preaching. But, blessed be God, I can still read, and write, and think. O that it may be to his glory!
— John Wesley
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— John Wooden
Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
— John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— John Wooden
Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
— John Wooden
O that you would realize that each moment is golden.
— Ellen White
As the sun goes down, let the voice of prayer and the hymn of praise mark the close of the sacred hours and invite God's presence through the cares of the week of labor. Thus parents can make the Sabbath, as it should be, the most joyful day of the week. They can lead their children to regard it as a delight, the day of days, the holy of the Lord, honorable. —Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, pp. 358, 359.
— Ellen White