"O the depth of the riches both of wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counselor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be glory for ever. Amen." {Romans 11:33-36}

"As we consider His mercy and His goodness, His providential care and His greatness, and as we consider our privileged position in being drawn thereunto, we, too, can enter into the spirit of Paul's ascription of praise, and conclude it with a resounding Amen!"

"The more we know and are known by God, the more our thanksgiving comes spontaneously. But God is also patient with our lack of thanks. He knows we have many needs, and He loves to meet them. He keeps healing us, like the lepers, despite our ingratitude. Each moment He sustains us with new breath, so that we can grow in His love, learning despite our mistakes. Now that's something to be thankful for."

"Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." {I Corinthians 15:56}

"Pride skews our perspective to primarily see what's displeasing to us. We can enter a room where there's so much in front of us to be thankful for, and we will zero in on something that's wrong and that's where our focus remains. Someone or something does not meet our standards, our preferences, or even our demands--we grumble, criticize, and complain. Because of indwelling sin, pride is our default setting."
"Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name." {Hebrews 13:15}

"It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night." {Psalm 92:1-2}

"Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all. No therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name."
{I Chronicles 29:10-13}

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'"

"Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now."

"As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving." {Colossians 2:6-7} (NKJV)

"For the joy of ear and eye,
for the heart and mind's delight,
for the mystic harmony,
linking sense to sound and sight;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise."

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." {Philippians 4:6}

"Be thankful for your stupid mistakes--for they usefully remind you of your natural incompetence and need for help. And that reminds you of your total dependence on God's guidance and direction, in order to do anything useful or worthwhile. And that brings your mind back to where it should have been in the first place, from which it had wandered through the weakness and deceptiveness of the flesh. A 'successful,' self-satisfied, self-dependent man is a man totally out of touch with the eternal realities which we must ever keep in mind if we are to please God and be His. Be thankful for your stupid mistakes: they're wonderful eye-openers."

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"Give thanks always for all things." {Ephesians 5:20}

"Thankfulness is a powerful incentive to do what is right, and to resist what is wrong. It is a major ingredient of our love for God. It is a wonderful remembrance--keeping the mind fixed on God and His goodness."

"Being thankful has many practical values. It is wholesome. It is healthy. It is therapeutic. It refreshes and clears and invigorates the mind. It wonderfully flushes out the rubbish and the petty cares. It is an automatic antidote to much foolishness and fleshliness."

"Be thankful. Be intensely thankful. Be continuously thankful--every moment. We can never be thankful enough: we just do not have the physical and mental capacity to be as thankful as we should. No matter how bad or sad our circumstances may be, there are always grounds for more thankfulness than we are humanly able to feel or express."

"We are prone, indeed we are quick to take our troubles to the Father; but we are slow to count our blessings and to thank Him for the bright vision of eternity which He has given to sustain us in the misfortunes which shape our characters."

"Whilst our prayers should begin with an expression of our worship and adoration of the Father, we should neither forget nor omit from them our praise and thanksgiving. Through His Word and the life and teaching of His Son He has entered our poor hearts and touched us with His love. And who can say that we deserve any of this?"

"We cannot be unhappy when we are giving thanks; we cannot be sorry for ourselves; we cannot be angry at or unkind to others."

"In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God."
{I Thessalonians 5:18}

"In the light of the greatness and goodness of God, we should be overwhelmed with joyful thanksgiving continually. After all God has done, and is doing, and promises to do for us, if we are not happy we are reproaching God, ignoring and belittling His love and care."

"Thanksgiving is a beautiful frame of mind--healthy, wholesome, upbuilding, beautifying, inspiring to others. It leads to all other beauties of mind. It drives away all contrary characteristics: self-pity, envy, dissatisfaction, dissension, criticism of others. True, humble thankfulness to God for His infinite patience and goodness makes us want to help others, not criticize and condemn."

"Thanksgiving is a living awareness of divinity and glory, an overflowing gratitude, irrepressible love welling up from within in reciprocation of divine love poured down on us from above."

"Cheerful thanksgiving based on an intense appreciation of God's infinite beauty and goodness, must be our basic frame of mind always."

"A sense of gratitude will help open our eyes to the things God has done in the past and the things He will do in the future."

"I will praise Thee, O Yahweh my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Thy name for evermore." {Psalm 86:12}

"Prayer should be a medium of praise unto Yahweh. The Psalmist exhorts us to 'give unto Yahweh the glory due unto His name; worship Yahweh in the beauty of holiness' {Psalm 29:1-2}. We are to praise Him because of His protective care; because it is right for the upright to do so; because it glorifies Him who should be glorified; because of His loving kindness; because of His righteous judgments; because of His righteousness; because of His faithfulness."

"For most of us, life is busy and complicated. We have countless responsibilities, some of which begin before sunrise and many of which end long after sunset. Amid the rush and crush of the daily grind, it is easy to lose sight of our blessings. But when we forget to slow down and say thank you for the gifts we've been given, we rob ourselves of opportunities to thank God for all the blessings we have received."

"We have seen that the beauty of the created world and the wonder of its myriad forms is an act of praise and worship to Him who made it all and sustains it all. A poet once described it as this: the soft beauty of the rose, the scented beauty of the honeysuckle, the strong beauty of the horse, the flashing beauty of the trout, the shimmering beauty of the stars and planets--all these praise the God who made them and conceived them."

"If I spend every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all His goodness to us, that still would not be enough."