Richard Whately Quotes

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us.

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

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

Thank God for the journey.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

I thank God for making me a man.

No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.