Anne Donovan Quotes

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

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

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

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

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

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

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.

For me, every hour is grace.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

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.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Thank God for little miracles, right?

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

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.

I feel privileged, to be honest.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

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

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.

If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.