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20 Quotable Quotes on Thanksgiving

Elevating the Great Giver at Thanksgiving is equally important to elevating the Christ Child at Christmas.

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The very fact that a man is thankful implies Someone to be thankful to.

—John Baillie

praise-1True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him.

—George Hendrick

 

We must not forget to thank Him for the lessons we have learned through our difficult times. We are not to be thankful for just the pleasant, easy things, but ALL things.

—Millie Stamm

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praise-5Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

—Charles Jefferson

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

—Charles Spurgeon

 

Some of our most profound gratitude arises from a grit of resolve in our hearts to not allow the gravest voices to be the loudest voices in our lives.

——John Stumbo

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Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

—A.W. Tozer

praise-2A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.

—Charles Finney

 

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

—H.U. Westermayer

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The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reasons for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

—Warren Wiersbe

Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.

—A.J. Gossip

 

praise-7We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

—Harry Ironside

Thanksgiving is an intersection where we do have the opportunity to make a U-turn from our all-cylindered drive for recognition of our attainments.

—John Stumbo

 

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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.

—Meister Eckhart

praise-3In 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.

—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 Spurgeon

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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 the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

—C.S. Lewis

praise-4Gratitude 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

 

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.

—Henry Beecher

 

praise-6I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

—G.K. Chesterton

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