Quotes About Thankfulness To God

#1. We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.

Rumi

#2. Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.

Jerry Bridges

#3. A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous.

Charles R. Ringma

#4. The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. Great is thy faithfulness of the Lord.
Thank you Lord for your great compassion and mercies.
My heart is overflowing with great thankfulness to the Lord.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. With all respect to your religion or world-view - thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes - the keyword is "thank" - just have some gratitude and be thankful.

Bryant McGill

#7. Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.

Billy Graham

#8. Thank you Lord.
Thank you Lord for the gift of life.
Thank you Lord for divine protection. Thank you Lord for daily guidance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

Thomas Aquinas

#10. 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

#11. Thank God for the grace to work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. The glory to God is the act of great thankfulness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens - even when things go wrong.

Jim George

#15. We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

J.I. Packer

#16. Could it be - no one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God? Is thankfulness really but the deep, contented breath of peacefulness? Is this why God asks us to give thanks even when things look a failure? When there doesn't seem much to give thanks for?

Ann Voskamp

#17. Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Expressing thankfulness in advance is the way of all Masters. So do not wait for a thing to happen and then give thanks. Give thanks before it happens, and watch energies swirl! To thank God before something occurs is an act of extraordinary faith. And that, of course, is where the power comes from.

Neale Donald Walsch

#19. I didn't thank God. Doctor Carter, do you think everything happened the way it did because I forgot to thank God? Do you think that God might somehow be as petty as I am?

Monika Basile

#20. God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. He is intricately involved in our lives and for that alone, we should be thankful.

Robin Bertram

#21. [God] wants your adoration. He wants your confessions. He wants your thankfulness. He wants your requests. But most of all, He wants you and your love for Him with all your heart, strength, mind, and soul. What a joy it is to be so wanted by the Creator of everything.

Van Harden

#22. One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..

Joel Osteen

#23. There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#24. A thankful and a contented spirit is a continual feast. We ought to be contented, and we shall be contented, if we are in the habit of seeing God in everything, and living upon Him day by day. Oh, for a spirit of true thankfulness!

Ashton Oxenden

#25. I have learned that bitterness, resentment and self-pity do nothing to lift the gloomy clouds of a spiritual February in my life. If anything, these sins only harden the soil of my heart, making it difficult for new growth to spring forth at God's appointed time.

Katherine J. Walden

#26. I am thankful for a new day, to live, to love, to talk, to smile, to laugh to walk, to dream, to share, to write, to hope, to pray, to praise God and to fulfill my purpose of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.

Billy Graham

#28. An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#29. We should not let a day go by without thanking God for His mercy and grace to us in Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#30. No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.

Billy Graham

#31. Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

Daniel Defoe

#32. So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful.

Anonymous

#33. Being grateful is humbling. If we appreciate the simple things as well as our achievements and a simple hello from someone else and show courtesy to others, we will certainly express our gratitude to God.

Ellen J. Barrier

#34. Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#35. When I intentionally thank God for the good gifts that come from being his child, I find it almost impossible to maintain my sour disposition.

Lori Hatcher

#36. I thank God for giving me the open heart to accept people that come to my life without judging them. I thank Him to give me an ear and patience to listen and to give me the tongue and words of wisdom to speak life as much as I can not to condemn them. It's a such rewarding feeling.

Euginia Herlihy

#37. I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.

Rosslyn Elliott

#38. An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.

Richard Leonard

#39. To be thankful when my world lays in ashes long gone cold is to finally understand that ashes are the raw materials from which God shapes dreams infinitely grander than whatever the ashes were before they were ashes.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

William Law

#41. God Almighty, I don't want to ask for more. But to say more thanks.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. It is a great blessing to wake each day and give thanks to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.

Habeeb Akande

#44. Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped.

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. All glory to Adonai!
Great is thy love.
Great is thy mercy.
Great is thy faithfulness.

Lailah Gifty Akita