Some quotes for your Thanksgiving Day:
"In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." -- I Thessalonians 5:18
"Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain."
--Alexander Pope
“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.” -- William Jennings Bryan
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” -- William Blake
“Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience.” -- Thomas Merton
“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.” -- A.W. Tozer
“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.” -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with.” -- Douglas Wilson
“Gratitude is an attitude we should give wide latitude.” -- Copied
"Some hae meat and canna eat, -
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit."
--Robert Burns
"O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." -- Psalm 107:1
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