Quotes for Gratitude
Christian quotes for Gratitude — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. Loving somebody is grace.
Frederick Buechner
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Helen Keller
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller
Since God has given me a cheerful heart, he will surely forgive me for serving him cheerfully.
Joseph Haydn
He, he makes the sun rise, he sets the moon's course, he lets the winds blow, he opens up the sky. He grants us cattle and joy, he makes us fresh and ruddy, he gives the cows their pasture and our children bread.
Matthias Claudius
Gratitude looks beyond the gift to the giver.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I received nothing of what I asked for – but everything that was good for me. Against myself, my prayers were answered. Among all people, I am a blessed person.
Peter Scazzero
We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable.
Eugene Peterson
I owe the best Bible translation to my mother. She translated the Bible into life.
John Thiessen
My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Should I not sing to my God? Should I not be grateful to him? For I see in all things how good he is to me. Nothing is there but pure love that stirs his faithful heart; all things last their time; God's love forever!
Matthias Claudius
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
To the grateful person everything becomes a gift, because he knows that for him there is no deserved good at all.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In gratitude I gain the right relationship to my past.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures.
Francis of Assisi
In ordinary life, one often hardly realizes that a human being receives infinitely much more than he gives, and that gratitude is what truly makes life rich.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Christian is one who is on the way, though not necessarily very far along it, and who has at least some dim and half-baked idea of whom to thank.
Frederick Buechner
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
Helen Keller
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Helen Keller
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare
The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.
Paul Tillich
Gratitude is the guardian at the gate of the soul against the forces of destruction.
Gabriel Marcel
He blesses the fruit of your trees, your child, your land, your cattle. He blesses whatever seeks the blessing. Grace never slumbers.
Jochen Klepper
We can do no greater or better work for God, nor show him a nobler worship, than to thank him.
Martin Luther
I thank God and rejoice like a child over a Christmas gift, that I am, I am! And that I have you, beautiful human face!
Matthias Claudius
There may be much we have earned - our salary, a home, a cold beer, or a good night's sleep. But all of it is only possible because so much has been given to us: life itself.
Brennan Manning
In Christian community, thanksgiving is like elsewhere in the Christian life. Only the one who gives thanks for the small things also receives the great.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
John Knox
Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
A.W. Tozer
Memory…keeps gratitude fresh and…gratitude keeps faith fruitful.
Dale Ralph Davis
We cannot give God anything; for everything is already His, and all we have comes from Him. We can only give Him praise, thanks, and honor.
Martin Luther
To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.
Pope Francis
I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
Renita J. Weems
You lead my spirit into vast expanses, breathe wisdom into life, and with wisdom, joy.
Hildegard of Bingen
God wants people to be joyful; that is why He made everything so beautiful.
Martin Luther
If the only prayer you speak throughout your entire life is Thank you, that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
People quoted here
Frederick Buechner, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, Joseph Haydn, Matthias Claudius, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peter Scazzero, Eugene Peterson, John Thiessen, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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