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• The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Loss, Grace

  John Wesley (1855). “A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition”, p.91

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• The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Trying, Three, Four

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

  Robert E. Lee

  Prayer, Guidance, Should

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• Eaten bread is forgotten.

  Thomas Fuller

  Bread, Forgotten

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• Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thanksgiving, Being Thankful, Important

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• Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Blessing

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• Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Wind, Grace, Soul

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• Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices.

  Johann Cruger

  Heart, Hands, Voice

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• The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.

  Alan Cohen

  Grateful, Successful, People

  Alan Cohen (1987). “Companions of the Heart: A Treasury of Inspiration and Encouragement”, Dolphin Communications Company

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  The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Being Thankful, Fallen, Persons

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• Unconditional gratitude is a powerful activity allowing ourselves to be grateful for whatever happens in our life.

  Jesse D. Jennings

  Gratitude, Powerful, Grateful

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• When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Gratitude, Skulls, Taken For Granted

  "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

  Billy Graham

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Nov 26, 2015

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• No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.

  Billy Graham

  Blessed, Might, Matter

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• Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

  Billy Graham

  Grief, Darkness, Sunlight

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• May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Jesus, Blessing

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• As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Heart, Agony

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.

  William George Jordan

  Gratitude, Action

  William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”

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• If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Crazy, Humility, Breathing

  "The Songs Are Free". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 6, 1991.

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• Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Gratitude, Jesus

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• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Grateful, Meditation, Fearless

  Jane Austen (1853). “Northanger abbey, and Persuasion”, p.285

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• Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Summer, Flower, Winter

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• Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration.

  Roy Lessin

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Song

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• Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sadness, Compassion, Words Of Wisdom

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• Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Able, Bears, Thanks

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