Quotes with thankfulness

  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Daniel Defoe All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Henry van Dyke 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
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • William John Bennett Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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