Thankfulness Quotes - Page 3

Rest and be thankful.

When you express thankfulness, even the almost empty tank of petrol will go the extra mile; it changes challenges into opportunities, mistakes into experiences, disappointments into celebrations, doubt into faith.

The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.

Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our letters, all the things you got for our household. How proud we were of that! And the nearly six years! O God, I thank you for those years. If I never had met you, I would now not have all the sorrow; but I would have missed these riches -- and do these years not abundantly balance the lonely years I face without you?

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies—you’ve guessed it—is gratitude.

Nothing is owed to us in life, not even the innocence of a blue sky. Great art is the art of thankfulness for the abundance of every moment. Writing is a Chinese variant of this thankfulness, a courtesy to life in its cloak of nothing, lined with love.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

My heart filled with endless praise.

God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. He is intricately involved in our lives and for that alone, we should be thankful.

For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.

Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.

It's easy and natural to be thankful when your expectations are met. The real test of your faith is when things don't go your way, or when you are in pain.

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

Challenges are inevitable. Happiness is optional.

We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.

Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.

What are you most thankful for?” she asked.My reply came easily. “Being too blessed to have any hope of answering that question.

Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

If we spend more time praising and thanking God for His daily benefits and blessing and all the good things He bestows, there wouldn't be time to blame, complain. cry and moan over the bad things.

God Almighty, I don’t want to ask for more. But to say more thanks.

The more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance.

Only having valued a thing, can you truly be thankful. You can not be sincerely thankful for what you have not valued.

we take some big miracles for granted. We're on a planet that's spinning at a thousand miles per hour, traveling through space and we don't worry about God keeping our planet in orbit. We already trust God for the big miracles like our heart beating and today alone, we'll take a thousand breaths, but can we trust Him in the smaller things?

And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.

FACING LIFE’S TRIALS, CHALLENGES AND DIFFICULTIES, IS THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH LIFE.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

She looked down at her bulging veins and she remembered the most important thing that she had forgotten – she was alive.

A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it.

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?

Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, it’s appreciating the fact that I have already received the privilege of living life which in and of itself will fill the whole of my ledger for the whole of my life.

Lord I thank you for the gift of life.

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

Live each day with thankful gratitude.

Gratitude enables you to be fearless, and to never shy away from reveling in every moment of your life.

When Christians sing about the wrath of God, we are singing about ourselves.

Gratitude...here at home our faith dwindlespolitical division causes tensions to kindle -we should never forgetwho stands at the door -who shields us with armorand shall forever more...

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there 20, 30, 40 years from now, padding your old bones and time worn, weary soul.

Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

We should not let a day go by without thanking God for His mercy and grace to us in Jesus Christ.

If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

You never know how much you are blessed until you have nothing.

Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

Positive thought + positive action = positive results.

Thankfulness opens the door and ushers in peace and joy like a blessed breeze on a hot and humid Louisiana summer day.

Happiness changes the way you see the world.

I am a Christian because of God's grace. I find it in no other faith system. The Christian gospel is rather simple. I love the way Tim Keller puts it: "I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me." The result is that I neither swagger nor snivel; I live with thanksgiving, overwhelmed and overjoyed by grace. This path seems to lead us to a place of needing to be noticed less often, and being less concerned with how we're thought of.

Almighty Saviour, thank you for the gift of the moment.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

I’m still thanking all the stars, one by one.