Lynn Flewelling Quotes

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.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

If we don't take inventory every once in a while and give thanks to God for the great things He has done for us, we get totally out of perspective.

My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

Take the good the gods provide thee.

The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

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.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

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.

Everything is a blessing to me.

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.

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?

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

If you have anything, or if I have anything, it's because it's been given to us by our Creator.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.