Thanksgiving Thankfulness Quotes

#1. Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver.

Billy Graham

#2. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. I have more to thank for than complain about

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#4. Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the 'gift of life' if we ever hope to be thankful for the 'gifts' of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. 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

#6. Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

Billy Graham

#7. When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite "thank you," it is the recognition of dependence.

Billy Graham

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

Richard Leonard

#9. I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. 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

#11. What are you most thankful for?" she asked.
My reply came easily. "Being too blessed to have any hope of answering that question.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

Todd Stocker

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

#16. I am most thankful for what I don't have, for had my life's wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God's treasures.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Let nothing put me to unease,
nothing to deceive.
I have conceived,
I exist.

Because I am blessed,
To gather time,
in hearing,
my breath,
so tranquil.

To life,
I am, thankful.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#18. 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

#19. Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

Arthur Guiterman

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. 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

#25. The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

Todd Stocker

#26. I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. It's not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don't have. Rather, it's about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

John Bunyan

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. We recklessly attempt to disguise our 'greed' by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as 'rights' and 'privileges.' Yet, if we dare dress 'greed' in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. Be grateful for who you are and what you will be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

John Henry Jowett

#35. Family gathers
to share good noise and good food.
Gratitude abounds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. Almighty Saviour, thank you for the gift of the moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

Mark Twain

#38. I thank you wholeheartedly because you cannot imagine all the happiness you are giving me.

Auliq Ice

#39. O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

William Shakespeare