Saul Bellow Quotes

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.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

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

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

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

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

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

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

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.

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.

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

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

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 pray every day. In the mornings and, before I go to bed. I think it's important to pray not just when things are going bad. When things are going bad, it's easy to pray and ask God to help you out, but it's also important to pray when things are going well and show your appreciation.

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.

When I get out of bed in the morning, I literally say a prayer. The first thing I do is thank God that I got through the night.

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

I wake up every day and give my thanks.

Each morning and night I get down on my knees and thank God for my life and ask Him to make me grateful all the time instead of just most of the time.

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

Let me recommend that periodically you and I offer a prayer in which we only give thanks and express gratitude. Ask for nothing; simply let our souls rejoice and strive to communicate appreciation with all the energy of our hearts.

You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude.

When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.