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"Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness." (Robert Casper Lintner)
"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction." (Harry A. Ironside)
"I like Thanksgiving meals. The dressing and the turkey." (Justin Timberlake)
"He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart." (J.A. Shedd)
"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. " (Edward Sandford Martin)
"For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." (Irv Kupcinet)
"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." (Seneca)
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." (Meister Eckhart)
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
"The most holy service we can render to God is to be employed in praising His name." (John Calvin)
"Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues, which the idle will never know." (Basil Carpenter)
"Thanksgiving is an important ingredient in praying...If all we do is ask, and never thank God for His gifts, we are selfish. Sincere gratitude to God is one of the best ways to put fervor into our praying." (Warren Wiersbe)
"Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to God and to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration." (Roy Lessin)
"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord." (Psalm 92:1)
"We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions." (Albert Barnes)
"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with that of others." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
"Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant." (Feltham)
"But whether we have less or more, Always thank we God therefore." (Fabliau of St. Cleves)
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