Quotes about Appreciation

The miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us — and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love.

It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because they loved Him alone that they alone loved everybody. S

The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The little yellow flowers that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us—and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace

Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening

In a certain sense, these people have a better appreciation of the Church and of Catholicism than many Catholics have: an appreciation which is detached and intellectual and objective. But they never come into the Church. They stand and starve in the doors of the banquet -- the banquet to which they surely realize that they are invited -- while those more poor, more stupid, less gifted, less educated, sometimes even less virtuous than they, enter in and are filled at those tremendous tables.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.