Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

In everything give thanks

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

People are less grateful than they used to be.

It's simple: Give thanks and use Dove.

To me, faith is being thankful when things in life are going well and also being thankful when they are not. Its often through our most difficult times when faith lifts us up and gives us the courage and the strength to work even harder to accomplish a new goal or do something we never thought we could.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.

Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Thank you for trusting me.

Gratitude is the smile of love.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.

Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks.

I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

Don't hide your goosebumps.

A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort-at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude. Often we feel grateful and intend to express our thanks but forget to do so or just don't get around to it. Someone has said that "feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

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