Top 1200 Thanksgiving And Gratitude Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.

I'm still getting offers despite my movies not doing well. I feel a sense of gratitude.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

The fall season brings Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Sharing meals with family and friends are a key element of this joyful time of the year. We are faced with an abundance of food, and can easily gain extra pounds as a result.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

I walk in a space of gratitude. I'm so grateful to God for blessing me with an amazing family and the opportunity to do what I love.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families. There are people that are in dangerous areas, putting their lives on the line to keep our country free, and I think that's something we should all celebrate every day.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

My gratitude towards fans has always been sitting itself deep down there in my heart.

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...

Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.

When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there were high winds and Trump's hair nearly killed two people.

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

All of us at Cablevision and MSG owe Dave Checketts a debt of gratitude for 10 years of service.

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live.

Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

The first step of gratitude is to see the gift...if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty...when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind...mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.