“Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing.”
Henry Jacobsen

"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. It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with that of others."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well."
Psalm 139:14

“You don’t have to be afraid of praising God too much; unlike humans He never gets a big head.”
Paul Dibble

"Gratitude to God should be as habitual as the reception of mercies is constant, as ardent as the number of them is great, as devout as the riches of divine grace and goodness is incomprehensible."
Simmons

"It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others."
James Smith

"We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the
burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions."
Albert Barnes

"Thanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn't learned to be content
we will not be thankful for he lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better. "
Robert Flatt

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

"Some people complain because God put thorns on roses,
while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns."
Anonymous

"Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices."
Thomas Fuller

"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

"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."
Frank A. Clark

"But whether we have less or more, Always thank we God therefore."
Anonymous: attributed to Fabliau of St. Cleves

"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to
be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
Albert Barnes

"Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him,
and bless his name. For the Lord is good..."
Psalm 100:4, 5a

"Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family
and friends."
Courtland Milloy

"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence."
William Jennings Bryan

"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