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The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
Sep 10, 2025
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.
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.
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
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.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.