George Washington Quotes

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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 use my sport and my talent as a tool to spread God's word. Whatever I get out of it, all glory goes to Him.

The CrossFit games, the four-time Fittest Man on Earth isn't about me. It's about Him and the talents that I've been given. It's my way to glorify Him through what I do.

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

Glory be to God for all things!

Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather together and express gratitude for all that we have been given, the freedoms we enjoy, and the loved ones who enrich our lives. We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

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.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

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

If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.

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

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

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 Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

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