Quotes about Thankfulness

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.

I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.

The warmth of God's grace melts our resentment, cools our tongues, and replaces our anger with love. It doesn't mean the wound didn't happen or that it doesn't hurt, but it means we choose to focus on God's grace instead of our wounds and live in thankfulness instead of demanding justice.

IT'S A DELIGHT to be around thankful people. They fill up a room with their optimism, thoughtfulness, and peace. In his letter to the believers in Corinth, Paul said that such people act as a fragrant perfume that brings pleasure to every corner of a room.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude. You will notice at once that the unhappy person has little gratitude toward life, other people and God.

Express gratitude for what you have. This increases the possibility that eventually you will have more to express gratitude for.

We bring a smile to God's face when we express thanks for what we have instead of complaining because we don't have the latest version of a toy we want. We give God joy when we take care of what He has loaned us instead of trashing things.

Yes, there is a "secret to happiness"—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!