Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

No matter our circumstances, no matter our challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish. There is something in each day that can bring gratitude and joy if only we will see and appreciate it.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

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.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

When you are grateful, that allows God to do great things in your life.

The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

Be grateful for small mercies.

Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.

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

The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you in effect, acknowledge that it is there...in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God - an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate... Appreciate.

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

It's no wonder, that God's anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude. The anxious heart says, "Lord, if only I had this, that, or the other, I'd be okay." The grateful heart says, "Oh, look! You've already given me this, that, and the other. Thank you, God."

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

I think we always need to see the positive.