Quotes about Thankfulness

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.

Thinking too much just brings it back to me, me, me—but thanking takes my eyes off myself and my mistakes and puts them on others, on things bigger than myself. I can't stand here very long without being humbled at how small I am and amazed at how big and beautiful our world is.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

Sometimes we're so focused on our desired blessings that we fail to stop and thank God by remembering the blessings we already have in Christ.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Safely through another week,   GOD has brought us on our way,   Let us now a blessing seek   On th' approaching sabbath-day:

Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

So I arrive at this definition of gratitude. Gratitude is a species of joy which arises in your heart in response to the goodwill of someone who does or tries to do you a favor.