Thankfulness

March 6, 2013

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

– GK Chesterton –

January 30, 2013

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

– GK Chesterton –

January 12, 2013

Thankfulness is a flower which will never bloom well except upon a root of deep humility.

– JC Ryle –

December 28, 2012

God gives us a million and one things and all we can think and pray about is that ONE he hasn’t given us … man is a MISERABLY selfish creature.

– Zac Poonen –

November 23, 2012

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God’s special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

– Martin Luther –
from Table Talks 

November 22, 2012

If anyone would tell you the surest, shortest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself, to thank God for every thing that happens to you.

– William Law –
from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life 

November 21, 2012

The first great characteristic of the true Christian is always a sense of thankfulness and gratitude to God.

– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
from Love So Amazing