Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

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.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

In everything give thanks

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of a real strong character to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in the church, everywhere. It doesn't cost anything, and it is so easy to cultivate.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks.

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.