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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. -- William Blake
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. -- Phyllis Diller
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
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. -- Victor Hugo
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. -- William Jennings Bryan
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. -- W. Clement Stone
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. -- Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -- Melody Beattie
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. -- Izaak Walton
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. -- Merle Shain
I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. -- O. Henry
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' -- William Arthur Ward
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. -- Meister Eckhart
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -- John F. Kennedy
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. -- Henry Van Dyke
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. -- Conrad Gessner
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. -- Jon Stewart
Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. -- Johnny Carson
Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones! -- Wayne Dyer
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. -- John Clayton
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. -- Abraham Lincoln
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. -- Henry Ward Beecher
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! -- Grandpa Jones
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. -- Phillips Brooks
Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope. -- Ralph Marston
We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people. -- Wilma Mankiller
Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration. -- Roy Lessin
I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry. -- Marlee Matlin
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May my thanksgiving be my prayer. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving. -- Billy Graham
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. -- Charles Lamb
The joy of living is the heart of thanksgiving. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. -- Billy Graham
It is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself. -- Kallistos Ware
Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that. -- Emmet Fox
I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. -- Henry David Thoreau
love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving -- Charles Bukowski
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God. -- Saint John Chrysostom
There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving. -- Gloria Gaither
When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. -- Khalil Gibran
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him. -- Francis Chan
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. -- Laurence Binyon
What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love? -- Imelda Marcos
May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. -- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend. -- Casey Wilson
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving. -- Craig Groeschel
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. -- W. T. Purkiser
When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God. -- Anthony the Great
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving. -- Seneca the Younger
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. -- John Bunyan
Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do. -- Joyce Meyer
One of the first choices we make every day is your attitude. Wake up and put on an attitude of thanksgiving! -- Victoria Osteen
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God. -- Alexander Schmemann
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship. -- John Calvin
The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. -- Jeremy Taylor
From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving. -- Jeremy Taylor
Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities. -- Paul Brunton
I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral -- Lord Mountbatten
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves. -- David Steindl-Rast
The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence. -- Billy Graham
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept. -- William Dean Howells
Start each day with thanksgiving, prayer, reading of the Scriptures, listening to music while engage in exercise; you will be motivated for the entire day. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving. -- Earl Nightingale
God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons. -- Jeremy Taylor
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song. -- R. Kent Hughes
Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. -- Konrad von Gesner
I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved. -- C. S. Lewis
In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek. -- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving. -- Matthew Henry
Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God. -- Maximus the Confessor
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. -- Conrad Gessner
That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success. -- Francis Quarles
One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world. -- Peter Kreeft
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love! -- William Wordsworth
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?' -- Elisabeth Elliot
It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself. -- Aaron Neville
We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime. -- John R. Rice
God cares about you and your needs. Bring them to Him in a spirit of worship and thanksgiving, knowing that He is mindful of your place in His creation. -- David Jeremiah
This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives. -- Chuck Smith
Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness. -- Jack W. Hayford
Live everyday like your birthday and drive your life with all varieties of appreciation. A life live with thanksgiving every day is never tired of being lived again and again! -- Israelmore Ayivor
If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving. -- Martin Luther
Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. -- Henry M. Morris
To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred. -- Joan D. Chittister
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life. -- Ann Voskamp
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare. -- Jerry Bridges
We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving. -- Vince Lombardi
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. -- David
The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing. -- Gloria Gaither
There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible." -- H. Emilie Cady
If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster. -- Napoleon Hill
"But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving! -- Abd-Ru-Shin
Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God. -- George Washington
The purest form of thanksgiving unto God is a reflected in our knowledge and understanding about who He is, not what we receive from Him! Thanksgiving is a continuous celebration of God's awesome nature and Supreme Being! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things. -- Jan Karon
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting. -- Joseph Fort Newton
Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving. -- Meinrad Craighead
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving. -- George Whitefield
We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts. -- John Ruskin
All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the "great fruit of revival." In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven. -- Henry Blackaby
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. -- Khalil Gibran
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise. -- Charles Hodge
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne

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