Happy Thanksgiving, my dear readers!
In honor of this joyful holiday centered on gratitude I’ve collected some favorite quotes on the subject. Perhaps you’ll find one or two to your liking also.
Why is gratitude an important?
If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our Father in heaven?—Hosea Baliou
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord—Billy Graham.
The best way to take off the tendency to complain is to put on thankfulness. Each day we must actively choose to see what God has provided—Melissa B. Krueger, The Envy of Eve, 134.
What happens as a result of gratitude?
It’s not the happy person who is thankful but the thankful person who is happy—Anonymous.
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction—Harry Ironside.
The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person—Lysa TerKeurst, Embraced, 256.
How do we cultivate gratitude?
The key to thankfulness is not to view God through the lens of our circumstances, but to view our circumstances through the lens of God’s love and sovereign purpose—Anne Graham Lotz.
Thank people who bless you in even the smallest ways. It will complete your enjoyment of the blessing, and it will increase your capacity to thank God—Alexander Whyte.
Habits of a grateful person: Notice, Pause, Choose. Notice something for which to be thankful no matter your circumstance. Pause to acknowledge this something as a reminder of God’s presence. Choose to focus on God’s presence until His powerful peace is unleashed—Lysa TerKeurst, Embraced, 256-257.
What might a life of gratitude look like?
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink—G. K. Chesterton.
That sounds like a marvelous way to live, doesn’t it?
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