Ann Voskamp Quotes

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

All that we behold is full of blessings.

The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

I wake up every day and give my thanks.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

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

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

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

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

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.

We are grateful to God.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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