"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." | G.K. Chesterton
"We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country." | C.S. Lewis
"We meet many Christians who have tears in their eyes, and complaints in their mouths; but there are few with their harps in their hands, who praise God in affliction. To be thankful in affliction is a work peculiar to a saint. Every bird can sing in the spring, but some birds will sing in the dead of winter. Everyone, almost, can be thankful in prosperity, but a true saint can be thankful in adversity. A good Christian will bless God, not only at sun-rise, but at sun-set. Well may we, in the worst that befalls us, have a psalm of thankfulness, because all things work for good. Oh, be much in blessing of God: we will thank Him that doth befriend us." | Thomas Watson
"When I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me." | Ann Voskamp
"On your feet now -- applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourself into His presence. Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn't make Him. We are His people, His well-tended sheep. Enter with the password: 'Thank you!' Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank Him. Worship Him. For God is sheer beauty, all generous in love, loyal always and ever." | Psalm 100
a quick exercise in thankfulness
The Lumps celebrating Thanksgiving Day together
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