Quotes about Gratitude
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.
- Craig Groeschel
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
- Jerry Bridges
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
- Stanley Hauerwas
I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.
- CS Lewis
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
- Kevin DeYoung
The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
- GK Chesterton
Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
- Mark Twain
I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.
- Norman Vincent Peale
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
- Ann Voskamp
Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
- Ann Voskamp
Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
- Peter Kreeft