Gratitude Quotes - Page 28

• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

  Brennan Manning

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Suffering

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• When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Grateful, Shame, Fame

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.201, Vintage

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• The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Expression, Order, Effort

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.48, Multnomah

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• ...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is, it could always be worse, but isn't... and the thought that things could always be better and the bitter unhappiness this creates is discarded!

  Frithjof Schuon

  Summer, Blessed, Grateful

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• I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

  Ray Comfort

  Grateful, Passion, Thinking

  "Ray Comfort: The Evidence Bible". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

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• In Thy fullness, my Lord,
  Filled with thy grace,
  For the purpose of union with Thee
  And to satisfy and glorify Thy creation,
  With thanks to Thee with all our hearts
  And with all our love for Thee,
  With all adoration for all Thy blessings
  We accept thy gift as it has come to us.
  The food is Thy blessing and in Thy service
  We accept in all gratitude, my Lord.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Heart, Blessing, Grace

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Path, Rough

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

  Julian Clary

  Grateful, House

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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Mind, Matter

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• If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Believe, People, Wish

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• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Men, Unhappy, Needs

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• Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Heart, Ignorant

  "Lady Gaga fans counteract Westboro protesters in St. Louis". www.mtv.com. July 19, 2010.

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• Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

  Otsuichi

  Children, Thinking, Long Ago

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• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

  Douglas Horton

  Past, Feel Good, Get Better

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• The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Masters, Art Of Living

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• First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Opportunity, Hands, Thank God

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Emotion, Anti Abortion, Against Abortion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Long, Doe, Lasting

  Speech at appointment as a Goodwill Ambassador, www.unicef.org. 1989.

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• I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult: delight in taking a shower or a slow walk that has no destination, in touching something soft, in noticing the one small, black bird who sings every morning from the top of the big old pine tree ... I need to give my attention to the simple things that give me pleasure with the same fervor I have been giving it to the complex things with which I drive myself crazy.

  Dawna Markova

  Morning, Crazy, Heart

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• There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

  Angeles Arrien

  Spiritual, Religious, Attitude

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• You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Attitude, Worry, Lineage

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• At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

  M. J. Ryan

  Joy, Soul, Contentment

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• Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

  David

  Growing Up, Rain, Clouds

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• And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.

  Jonah

  Grateful, Shade, Might

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• Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

  Catullus

  Thank You, Grateful, Thinking

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