Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.
Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
I love Thanksgiving turkey. . . It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive. ' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits , and humbly to implore his protection and favor. . . beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed
Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.