Thanksgiving Quotes
"He who remembers the benefits of his parents is too much
occupied with his recollections to remember their faults."
[Béranger]
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil of
which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man,
for he never
thinks he gets much as he deserves."
[Henry Ward Beecher]
"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count past mercies." [Charles E.
Jefferson]
"That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous
works." [Psalm 26:7]
"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without
thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks
strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and
limps along the spiritual road."
[John Henry Jowett]
"To hear someone say 'Happy Turkey Day' makes me sad because they have nothing
to be thankful for and no one to whom to be thankful." [Robert Flatt]
"Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God
for unrealized blessings than for those we once
enjoyed
or those we enjoy now."
[A.
W. Tozer]
"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is
the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction." [Harry A. Ironside]
"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than
huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set
aside a day of thanksgiving."
[H. U. Westermayer]
"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]
"Feeling gratitude and not
expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
[William Arthur Ward]
"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." [Charles
Haddon Spurgeon]
"Our rural ancestors, with little blest, patient of labor
when the end was rest, indulged the day that housed their annual grain, with
feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain."
[Alexander Pope]
"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of
His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light!
Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!" [Henry
Ward Beecher]
“A thanksgiving-day hath a double precedency of a
fast-day. On a fast-day we eye God’s anger; on a thanksgiving-day we look to
God’s favor. In the former we specially mind our corruptions; in the latter,
God’s compassions; therefore a fast-day calls for sorrow, a thanksgiving-day for
joy. But the Lord’s day is the highest thanksgiving day.”
[George Swinnock ]
The Christian who walks with the Lord and
keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long." [Warren Wiersbe]
"No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here."
[John Greenleaf
Whittier]
"It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in
particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening
on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful
'in
general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general."
[Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.]
"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel." [Unknown]
"O Lord, that lends me
life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"
[William Shakespeare]
"Let every thing that hath breath praise
the LORD. Praise ye the LORD."
[Psalm
150:6]
"If a fellow isn't thankful
for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."
[Frank A. Clark]
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of
which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have
some." [Charles Dickens]
"True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us,
and not to tell Him what we have done for Him."
[George R. Hendrick]
"Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks
be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence." [Apostle Paul - 1 Timothy 2:1, 2]
"Praise is the best
auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by
God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above."
[Henry Melville]
"If we meet someone who owes us
thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we
owe thanks without remembering that?"
[Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe]
"Some
people complain because God put thorns on roses,
while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns." [Anonymous]
"He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should
never remember it." [Charron]
"Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices."
[Thomas Fuller]
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the
other virtues."
[Cicero]
"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies."
[Charles E. Jefferson]
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." [Ambrose of Milan]
"Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift." [Apostle Paul - 2 Corinthians 9:15]
"Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God
by singing hymns to Him in church
once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well
as words;
and more, he asks of thee works first and words after."
[Charles
Kingsley]
"My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations."
[David - Psalm 57:7 - 9]"One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude." [E. J. Conrad]
"This
is the finest measure of thanksgiving: a thankfulness that springs from love."
[William C. Skeath]
"By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to
God continually, that is,
the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." [Hebrews 13:15]
"The very fact that
a man is thankful implies Someone to be thankful to." [John Baillie]
"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children
and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the
doors. It changes a child’s personality … thankful children want to give, they
radiate happiness, they draw people."
[Sir John Templeton]
"For a Christian thanksgiving, we must give thanks."
[Unknown]
"I praise God because he not only guides my directions but overrules my mistakes."
[H. Norman Pell]
"But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness,
let it not even be named among you,
as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse
jesting, which are not fitting,
but rather giving of thanks."
[Apostle Paul - Ephesians 5:3, 4 NKJV]
"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard,
even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
[Hare]
"Thank you, dear God
For all You have given me,
For all You have taken away from me,
For all You have left me."
(unknown)
Thanksgiving Prayer
We come, O Lord, these Autumn days,
With hymns of gratitude and praise.
Harvest of gold the plains adorn,
Rich fruits roll forth from Plenty’s horn;
Thou givest treasures from the rocks;
The little hills are clothed with flocks;
The seas are with their burden white,
And new Thy mercies day and night.
For changing seasons as they go,
For Autumn leaf, for Winter’s snow,
For the green verdure of the Spring,
For life in plant and life on wing,
For Summer with its ripening heat,
For hopes the rounded years complete,
For morn and noon, for night and day,
For light that marks our heavenward way;
For all the blessings of Thy hand,
For freedom in fair freedom’s land,
Pursuits of thrift that bring us wealth,
For schools and churches, peace and health,
For commerce, yielding up her stores,
Brought for man’s use from distant shores;
For countless gifts, O Lord, we raise
Our hymns of gratitude and praise.
Thou settest man in families,
And all his wants the earth supplies;
Of children, be they far or near,
Of children’s children gathered here,
We thank Thee for Thy gracious care,
And lift for them the secret prayer,
As clustered round each social board
We eat and drink, and praise the Lord.
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