Written by Pastor Jack Wellman 32
Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness.
- Thomas Fuller
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The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.
- David Jeremiah
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.
- Philip Yancey
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Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.
- George Herbert
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If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in Heaven?
- Hosea Ballou
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There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them. The first will make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.
- Hannah More
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It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.
- Jack Hyles
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I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.
- Matthew Henry
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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
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Yes, give thanks for "all things" for, as it has been well said "Our disappointments are but His appointments."
- A. W. Pink
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Oh, how very kind and good my heavenly Father has been to me! I have no aches or pains, no rheumatism, and now in my ninety-third year I can do a day's work at the orphan houses with as much ease and comfort to myself as ever.
- George Mueller
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Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.
- Basilea Schlink
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Helen Keller
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To be always in a thankful state of heart before God is not to be considered a high plane of spirituality but rather the normal attitude of one who believes that "all things work together for good to them that love God, who are called according to his purpose."
- William Law
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Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.
- Assorted Authors
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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
- Samuel Rutherford
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If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.
- Phillips Brooks
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He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligation.
- George Washington
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The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
- Thomas Fuller
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He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
- Thomas Brooks
