Quotes about Gratitude

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.

Are you breathing? Are you here? Did you just take a breath? Are you about to take another? Do you have a habit of regularly doing this? Gift. Gift. Gift. Whatever else has happened in your life—failure, pain, heartache, abuse, loss—the first thing that can be said about you is that you have received a gift. Often

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17

Even the slightest tremors of bitterness can block the flow of love.

When Jesus tells the man that there are rewards for him, he's promising the man that receiving the peace of God now, finding gratitude for what he does have, and sharing it with those who need it will create in him all the more capacity for joy in the world to come.

Sabbath is when you spend a day remembering that efficiency and production are not God's highest goals for your life. Joy is.

Suffering and loss have this extraordinary capacity to alert and awaken us to the gift that life is.

Begin whatever you're doing by remembering that you are here and you have been given a gift.

Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

Giving the gift is reward enough. That's where the life is. That's where the joy is.

Good food, good friends.