John Patrick Shanley Quotes

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Give thanks to the most high.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.

I'm alive. That's a good thing.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

For me, it's a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and thank the Lord for all the blessings he's put in my life.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

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.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

We are grateful to God.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

When things are good, you should be thanking God. I don't do enough of that. But if you get things, you should thank Him, not just take, take, take. He really listens.

When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.

I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'

My God, I have so much bounty in my life.

I thank God every day.