James K. Polk Quotes

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

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

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous 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.

God has given me health and a great job that I shouldn't take advantage of.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

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.

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 beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

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

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.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

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

I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

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.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.