Quotes about Thankfulness

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

In my experience, if you are not radically grateful every day, resentment always takes over.

Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?