Quotes about Gratitude
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
- Paulo Coelho
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
- Lewis Carroll
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
- Charles Spurgeon
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Anne Lamott
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
- John Bunyan
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
- Mary Baker Eddy
God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can't see it.
- Stormie Omartian
Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
- Marianne Williamson
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.
- Max Lucado
For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
- JI Packer
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
- Wendell Berry