Meister Eckhart Quotes

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

I just say 'Amen' a lot. It's just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.

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.

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

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I wake up every day and give my thanks.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

I'm thankful for every moment.

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

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

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.

Complaining is an insult to God.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.