Quotations on gratitude for Thanksgiving and every season:
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. (Meister Eckhart)
For happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. (David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart)
I’ve gotten to the point in life where I am even grateful for my sins, because I have seen the good God has brought out of them. (Sister Catherine Roberts, rc [Cenacle Sister, now deceased])
… where sin increased, grace abounded all the more… (Romans 5:20)
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. (Cicero)
As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. (Colossians 3: 12-15)