Thanksgiving Sayings

 

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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