I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Thankfulness
Barbara Johnson
There is always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. Right now, I’m sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don’t hurt.
Hannah Whitall Smith
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.
Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Samuel Logan Brengle
I praise him! I adore him! I love him! My whole being is his for time and eternity. I am not my own. He can do with me as he pleases for I am his. I know that what he chooses must work out for my eternal good. He is too wise to make mistakes and too good to do me evil. I trust him, I trust him, I trust him!
Samuel Logan Brengle
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I praise him! I adore him! I love him! My whole being is his for time and eternity. I am not my own. He can do with me as he pleases for I am his. I know that what he chooses must work out for my eternal good. He is too wise to make mistakes and too good to do me evil. I trust him, I trust him, I trust him!
Elisabeth Elliot
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than resentful over what is withheld. One attitude or the other becomes a way of life.
Rob Coscia
Be intentional with thankfulness. It’s one of your most powerful guards of your mind and heart. Practice it until it’s your automatic response to disappointment, loss, and rejection. ”What ifs” can trap you in a never-ending maze, but gratefulness opens the door to grace, healing, and what’s next.
Alexander Maclaren
Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
Priscilla Shirer
He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. (Hos. 6:3) How does a person receive rain? Not by prying it loose from the sky but just by watching it fall, by standing in the downpour, by thanking Him for opening up the floodgates and sending what He knows we need and can’t get for ourselves, yet what He so faithfully, regularly, and graciously gives.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
February 20, 2020
When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption.