Top 76 Thanksgiving Thanks Sayings
#1. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles Spurgeon
#3. I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#4. Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.
Jacob Braude
#5. Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
Ann Voskamp
#6. If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.
Regina Brett
#7. 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
#8. Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. Thanksgiving and worry can't occupy the same space. Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite. You can't worry if you're giving thanks.
Matt Chandler
#10. When I wake up each morning; my heart is filled with thanks to God!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
Ann Voskamp
#12. Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.
Charles Hodge
#14. 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
#15. For Mary, the world is something to be mastered, manipulated, and made; for Fanny, the world is a gift to be received with thanksgiving. Fanny is the eucharistic heroine, giving thanks in all times and places.
Peter J. Leithart
#16. Thanks Giving.
The Indian and the White Man together.
The pageantry spoke to me of civilization.
Stephen Graham Jones
#17. The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.
Todd Stocker
#18. Thanksgiving means thanking the givers.
Vikrmn
#19. 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
#21. In the original language, "he gave thanks" reads "eucharisteo." ... The root word for eucharisteo is charis, meaning "grace." Jesus took bread and saw it as grace and gave thanks. He took the bread and knew it to be gift and gave thanks.
Ann Voskamp
#22. Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
Ann Voskamp
#23. All of our prayers are to include thanksgiving. Like the leper, we must pause, turn back, and give thanks. We are so indebted to God that we can never exhaust our opportunities for expressing gratitude. Forgetting
R.C. Sproul
#24. I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.
Paul The Apostle
#27. We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has allowed us not to do, not to be.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#28. In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what's there, and not angry for what's not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to
a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
Helen Keller
#30. I thank you wholeheartedly because you cannot imagine all the happiness you are giving me.
Auliq Ice
#31. Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.
Tony Evans
#32. The purest form of thanksgiving unto God is a reflected in our knowledge and understanding about who He is, not what we receive from Him! Thanksgiving is a continuous celebration of God's awesome nature and Supreme Being!
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.
Ann Voskamp
#35. The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter Dunne
#37. Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
Ann Voskamp
#38. Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
Ann Voskamp
#39. Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption
Ole Hallesby
#40. 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
#41. One of the best holidays ever initiated especially in USA is THANKSGIVING. Giving thanks is the sacrifice that honors the LORD and HE blesses those who does.
James C. Uwandu
#43. The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
David Steindl-Rast
#44. A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Say Thanks" is sometimes more important than "Say Cheese".
Vikrmn
#46. Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
Amy Grant
#47. For Thanksgiving, a quote from my book, The Restaurant Reviewer, with deepest thanks for all the bounty:
In the kitchen here ingredients are cherished. This restaurant remembers that food tastes good.
Nao Hauser
#48. From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
Jeremy Taylor
#49. The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It's circular, and it leads to a happier life.
Steve Goodier
#50. to give thanks is an action and rejoice is a verb and these are not mere pulsing emotions. While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things, because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.4
Ann Voskamp
#51. Give more, don't expect not to be repaid. Give more thanks for what you haven't expected but received!
Israelmore Ayivor
#52. 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
#53. THANKSGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
Mark Twain
#54. If I am truly in Christ, mustn't my initial act, too, always be an act of thanksgiving, returning to Jesus with thanks on the lips?
Ann Voskamp
#56. To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
#57. Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Henry Ward Beecher
#58. 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
#59. God Almighty, I don't want to ask for more. But to say more thanks.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.
Joyce Giraud
#61. 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
#62. Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
Jerry Bridges
#63. 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
#64. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.
Rick Warren
#65. The unvarnished truth is that what we most frequently give thanks for betrays what we most highly value. If a large percentage of our thanksgiving is for material prosperity, it is because we value material prosperity proportionately.
D. A. Carson
#66. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared two Thanksgivings. One was held in August. The second, held in November, was to give thanks for the nation's blessings. This fall celebration caught on and has been a tradition ever since.
Linda Bozzo
#67. 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
#68. He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
John G. Shedd
#69. Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.
Todd Stocker
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.
Richard Leonard
#75. It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.
Donald Curtis
#76. On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
Bobby Jindal
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