Quotes about Gratitude

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.

And there they were, empty, ignorant, helpless, glad, and joyful, but deeply humbled.

Bless the Lord, O my soul . . . who heals all thy diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.

God instituted sacrifice not for His own sake but for our sake. The sacrificial law is a means to God's glorious end: it disciplines His people, focusing their attention on worship, gratitude, sorrow for sin, the need for purity, and the necessity of renouncing everything in order to cling to God.

The more he cast away the more he had.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings,—gratitude, love, and admiration.—but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences.

Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all things given to us are given in order that we might know their author. This leads us to gratitude for His kindness toward us.

For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.