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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
Robert E. Lee
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The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.
Hilary Swank
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Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.
Charles Spurgeon
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
Thomas Aquinas
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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
Alexander MacLaren
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If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
John Wayne
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
John Calvin
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What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
Brené Brown
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.
John Milton
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
Barack Obama
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I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.
Justin Timberlake
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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
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
James Brown
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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
Elizabeth I
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I'm thankful for every moment.
Al Green
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I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
John Gresham Machen
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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
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Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
John Henry Jowett
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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
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
Ralph Stanley
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The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
R. Kent Hughes
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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Storm Jameson
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...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.
Gautama Buddha
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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
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This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.
Susan Dey
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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
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Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.
Billy Graham
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For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Seneca the Elder
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I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.
Billy Sheehan
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
Rumi
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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
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel
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The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.
Betty Eadie
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
John Bunyan