Sharon Sharing God: 2016 QUOTES ON BEING GRATEFUL

2016 QUOTES ON BEING GRATEFUL

Some wonderful quotes on gratitude and being grateful:

"Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are...a divine choice." -- Henri Nouwen

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."
-- Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."
-- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"…thanking God is a sign of humility. When we thank God, we are admitting that we are dependent on Him."
-- Pastor Joe

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
-- John F. Kennedy

"The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see."
-- Dr. Robert Holden

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
-- Cicero

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
-- Thornton Wilder

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
-- Aesop

"Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it…To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything."
-- Alan Cohen

"Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation."
-- John Ortberg

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."
-- John Milton

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein

"Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors."
-- Richelle E. Goodrich

"The struggle ends when gratitude begins."
-- Neale Donald Walsh

"If the only prayer you said was 'Thank You', that would be enough."
-- Meister Eckhart

"Gratitude is our ability to see the grace of God, morning by morning, no matter what else greets us in the course of the day."
-- Craig Barnes

"Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'"
-- C.S. Lewis

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."
-- William Arthur Ward

"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."
-- Lauryn Hill

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."
-- Johannes A. Gaertner

"Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life."
-- Rhonda Byrne

"Gratitude is a matter of obedience. Gratitude draws us close. Gratitude is a sure path to peace."
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

The following are all quotes from Ann Voskamp, "One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are":

"A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ."

"Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant -- a seed -- this plants the giant miracle."

"Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker."

"I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks."

"Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant."

"Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God."

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

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2016 QUOTES ON BEING GRATEFUL

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