Feel free to print out and use this compilation of enlightening, provocative quotations for your Thanksgiving Day celebration and, for that matter, in your conversations, letters, and prayers throughout the year.“Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.” (Psalm 100:4)
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” (Ambrose of Milan)
"By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is,
the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name." (Hebrews 13:15)
“The lack of gratitude is the foundation of all sin.” (G.K. Chesterton)
"True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us,
and not to tell Him what we have done for Him." (George R. Hendrick)
"Ingratitude is the worst of vices." (Thomas Fuller)
"Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns." (Anonymous)
“I will give thanks to the LORD because of His righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.” (Psalm 7:17)
"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. Thankful children want to give; they radiate happiness; they draw people."
(Sir John Templeton)
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” (John Milton)
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.
Let Israel say: ‘His love endures forever.’
Let the house of Aaron say: ‘His love endures forever.’
Let those who fear the Lord say: ‘His love endures forever.’…
Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter.
I will give You thanks, for You answered me; You have become my salvation.”
(Psalm 118: 1-4, 19-21)
"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count past mercies." (Charles E. Jefferson)
“In that day you will say: "Give thanks to the LORD, call on His name; make known among the nations what He has done, and proclaim that His name is exalted.” (Isaiah 12:4)
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." (Cicero)
"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." (John Henry Jowett)
“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:18)
"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction." (Harry A. Ironside)
"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake.
If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
"But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks." (Ephesians 5: 3-4)
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” (G.K. Chesterton)
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
“Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.”
(George Herbert)
"From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the Book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving." (Jeremy Taylor)
"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel." (Unknown)
“Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all.”
(Psalm 95:2-3)
"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)
"The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reasons for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long." (Warren Wiersbe)
Speaking of Jesus Christ, the apostle Paul writes, “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.” (2 Corinthians 9:15)
“How slow we are to thank and swift to grumble." (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” (G.K. Chesterton)
“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to Him in song.” (Psalm 28:7)
