Words on Gratitude & Thanksgiving, Part 2

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

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

--George Canning

Some complain that roses have thorns—others rejoice that thorns have roses!

--Unknown

Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world: It is not he who prays most or fasts most, it is not he who gives most alms or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice; but it is he who is always thankful to God, who wills everything that God wills, who receives everything as an instance of God’s goodness and has a heart always ready to praise God for it.

--William Law

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

--Robert Quillen

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

--Kahlil Gibran

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Thanksgiving to God is an exuberant response to giving me HIS everything . . . by giving Him MY everything.

–Martha Kilpatrick

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

--W.T. Purkiser

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

-- Cicero