John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

We are grateful to God.

I recommend that the people of this Commonwealth on November 26 refrain from their usual avocations and pursuits and assemble at their chosen place of worship, to praise the name of God and magnify Him with thanksgiving…. Let us thank him with Christian humility for health and prosperity…. Pray that our paths through life be directed by the example and instructions of the Redeemer, who dies that we might enjoy the blessings of eternal life in the world to come.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of the Almighty….the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High….and it has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people.

If you can't give thanks for what you have, then give thanks for what you have avoided.

The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.

Thanksgiving, for me, is a time for reflection.

I thank God every day.

I thank God every day for all my blessings.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

I want to thank GOD for everything he as done for me cause without him none of this wouldn't be possible.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

All that we behold is full of blessings.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.