Quotes about Thankful
A good story makes you thankful to be alive because it reminds you that while sometimes painful, life is indeed beautiful and even magical.
- Donald Miller
Give up your secret pride. Cast away your vain ideas of your own goodness. Be thankful if you have grace, but never glory in it for a moment. Work for God and Christ with heart and soul and mind and strength, but never dream for a second of placing confidence in any work of your own.
- JC Ryle
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.
- John Lennon
This is that which gives spiritual beauty and order unto the duty of prayer,—namely, the suiting of wants and supplies, of a thankful disposition and praises, of love and admiration, unto the excellencies of God in Christ, all by the wisdom of the Holy Ghost.
- John Owen
Being grateful all the time isn't easy. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: perspective. Gratitude can transform any situation, It alters your vibration, moving you from negative energy to positive. It's the quickest, easiest, most powerful way to effect change in your life - this I know for sure.
- Oprah Winfrey
Be thankful and repay Growth with good work and care. Work done in gratitude Kindly, and well, is prayer.
- Wendell Berry
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
- E Stanley Jones
If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
- Anonymous
Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
- Anonymous
And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.
- John Kani
If you look for God in your relationships, you will always find things to be thankful for. When God reigns in our hearts, peace reigns in our relationships. This work will only be complete in heaven but there is much we can enjoy now.
- Timothy Lane
The Christian life is a state of thankful discontent or joyful dissatisfaction. That is, I live every day thankful for the grace that has changed my life, but I am not satisfied. Why not? Because, when I look at myself honestly, I have to admit that I am not all I can be in Christ. I am thankful for the many things in my life that would not be there without his grace, but I will not settle for a partial inheritance!
- Timothy Lane