Quotes about Gratitude

God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings.

What makes God so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us—He knows every detail of each of our individual lives.

If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything "to the Lord," other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

Lord, for the days of the past holiday I praise and thank Thee, for my lying fallow to Thy grace; for the many prayers that have surrounded me like an atmosphere of heaven.

If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth.

Compared with the miracle of the forgiveness of sin, the experience of sanctification is small. Sanctification is simply the wonderful expression or evidence of the forgiveness of sins in a human life. But the thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

O Lord, I am distressed at my slow manifestation of any of the beauty of holiness that might express my unspeakable gratitude for Thy salvation, such lack of the winsome. O Lord, cause me by looking to Thee to be radiant.

O Lord, I would bless and praise Thee. How hard I find it to praise Thee when I am not physically fit, and yet why should it—that means that I praise Thee when it is a pleasure to me physically. O Lord, that my soul were one continual praise to Thee.

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love-gift.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.