Quotes about Thankfulness
If my heart is ever going to be freed of grumbling and ruled by gratitude, I need your grace: grace to remember, grace to see, grace that produces a heart of humble joy.
- Paul David Tripp
You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.
- Paul David Tripp
The DNA of joy is gratitude.
- Paul David Tripp
A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.
- Paul David Tripp
gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON
- Paul David Tripp
Often we make the mistake of thinking we have a heart for the Lord, when really we're just thankful for him because at that moment he seems to be delivering to us what we have truly set our hearts on. Often we reduce God to just the deliverer of good fits, rather than recognizing him as the ultimate heart-satisfying gift.
- Paul David Tripp
A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude. When I really reflect on who I am, when I take time to consider the grace that I couldn't have earned, achieved, or deserved but which has been lavished on me, and when I remember that that grace came at the cost of the life of another, then I am joyfully motivated to give that grace to others.
- Paul David Tripp
Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something, but rather in recognition of what you have already been given.
- Paul David Tripp
You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
- Paul David Tripp
We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.
- Paul David Tripp
When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.
- Paul David Tripp
the way to defeat the dangerous potential of complaint is not by silence but by praise. The more you commit yourself to counting your blessings, the more you will have eyes to see specific blessings in your life.
- Paul David Tripp