Josh Billings Quotes

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

Let me recommend that periodically you and I offer a prayer in which we only give thanks and express gratitude. Ask for nothing; simply let our souls rejoice and strive to communicate appreciation with all the energy of our hearts.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

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

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.

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.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

If you can't give thanks for what you have, then give thanks for what you have avoided.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

I wake up every day and give my thanks.

Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.