Quotes about Gratitude

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.

You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.

Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.

He is your God, the one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done mighty miracles that you yourself have seen.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too.

That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers.

couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.