Inspirational Thanksgiving
Quotes
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping
a present and not giving it
- William Arthur Ward
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what
we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal
into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts…nevertheless,
set aside a day of thanksgiving.
- H.W. Westermayer
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of
honest men, but be careful that you do not take the day
and leave out the gratitude.
- E.P. Powell
So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
- Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
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
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my
friends, the old and new.
- Will Carleton
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
- W.J. Cameron
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the
honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude
will allow.
- Edward Sandford Martin
Gratitude ... goes beyond the "mine" and "thine"
and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift.
In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous
response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I
realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline.
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to
acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a
gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
- Henri J. M. Nouwen
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when
our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence.
- William Jennings Bryan
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use
them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
- W T Purkiser
He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
- J.A. Shedd
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