Quotes about Gratitude
So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
- Joel Osteen
Oh, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.
- Charles Dickens
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
- Parker Palmer
Life is a mirror, smile at it:-)
- Anonymous
We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.
- Marty Rubin
Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.
- Marty Rubin
Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go.
- Germany Kent
Safely through another week, GOD has brought us on our way, Let us now a blessing seek On th' approaching sabbath-day:
- John Newton
Because of our own ignorance and unbelief, we often fail to understand the Lord's dealings with us, and we are all too ready to complain. If we knew everything from God's perspective, we would rejoice.
- John Newton
We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective. Look back over the past, however, and compare what you have been brought through with your frame of mind during each successive period. Consider how wonderfully one thing has been connected with another so that what we now count as our greatest benefits are
- John Newton
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.
- John Piper