Quotes about Thanksgiving
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
- Billy Graham
Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.
- Rick Warren
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
- Jerry Bridges
Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving.
- Gloria Gaither
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
- Kent Hughes
Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
- Ann Voskamp
All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.
- George W. Bush
If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster.
- Napoleon Hill
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
- William Wordsworth
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.
- J.R. Miller
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
- Ronald Reagan