Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people had come to trust in them merely by repeating them, without paying any attention to the ethical implications of what their faith should mean in how they lived. They believed God had given them their land. He had. But they had not lived in it in either gratitude or obedience. They had not fulfilled any of the conditions that Deuteronomy had made so clear.
Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.
Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.
Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness.
Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.
So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.
I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.
Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.
Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .