How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
Reflect upon your present blessings
Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
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