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“True gratitude is the ability to humbly see, feel, and even receive love. Gratitude is a form of returning love to God. Recognize His hand, tell Him so, express your love to Him.”

Feels Hands Form Ability Gratitude Love Gratitude Returning Love

Author:Gene R. Cook

“The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.”

Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind

“Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.”

Different Eye Form Joy Prayer Wonder Meditation Gratitude Quiet Blessed Assuming Contemplation Sigh Adoration Exclamation Restful

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.”

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Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.”

Giving Form Energy Share Gratitude Generosity Abundance Bows Modesty Expansion

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.”

Feels Heart Stills Action Form Speak Consciousness Moral Democracy Gratitude Conscience Consequence Abundance Have Faith Invites Disobedience Civil Disobedience Moral Action

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“If it is God who gives prayer, then God often gives it in the form of gratitude, and gratitude itself, when it is received attentively in prayer, is healing to the heart. Prayer is such a mysterious business for something so ordinary and everyday.”

Ifs Giving Heart Form Prayer Healing Gratitude Ordinary Everyday Mysterious

Author:Roberta Bondi

“No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.”

Source: The Power of Truth

“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

“As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.”

Source: Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

“I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Made Done Beautiful Form Dark Too Much Grace Our Lives Gratitude Bed Red Blue Indian Contrast Bowls Absent Sauce Deer Supper Old Ways Kneeling Dark Blue Cranberries

Book:Open House: A Novel

Source: Open House: A Novel

“Love and gratitude can part seas... It can move mountains and it can create miracles. The power of love and gratitude will dissolve all negativity in our lives no matter what the form has taken.”

Matter Moving Form Taken Our Lives Sea Positive Gratitude Mountain Miracle No Matter What Negativity Power Of Love Move Mountains Love And Gratitude

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.”

Form Kindness Gratitude Being Thankful Payment

Author:Michael Josephson

“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”

Mind Character Form Gratitude Grateful Attraction Law Of Attraction Fixed Thank You Thankful Secret Law Of Attraction Thankful Gratitude Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Power Of Attraction

Book:The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

“There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.”

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Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.”

Play Form Realizing Inspiring Minutes Divine Gratitude Angel Glorious Ministry Rapture Monotony

Author:Flower A. Newhouse

“A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.”

Thinking Heart Art Form Design Divine Gratitude Grateful Finished Grateful Heart Surpassing

Author:Mary Barber

“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”

Love Light Form Prayer Gratitude Highest Appreciate Shining Appreciation Good Acknowledge Thankful Being Thankful Past Relationship Appreciation Of Others Administrative Professionals Day

Book:Handle With Prayer

Source: Handle With Prayer

“Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.”

Shows Form Gratitude Mercy Grateful Forgiving

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.”

Knows Feels Should Looks May Ideas Moments Form Speak Religious Talking Atheism Gratitude Ignorant Tunes Arrogant Rejected Embarrassed Agnosticism God Exists Gifts Of Life Whether God Exists

Author:Karl Popper

“It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.”

Knows Giving Has Beens Said Form Desire Pleasure Talking Moral Christianity Grace Return Gratitude Ethics And Love Doctrine Testament New Testament Awakened Literal God's Grace

Author:J. I. Packer

“I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.”

“Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.”

“Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.”

Inspirational Motivational Form Gratitude Highest Appreciation Imitation Superiority Thankfulness Thankful Being Thankful Supremacy Emulate Matching Surpassing Emulation

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

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

Giving Heart Feelings Form Three Expression Return Gratitude Thankfulness Giving In

Book:Maxims of Life and Business

Source: Maxims of Life and Business

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]”

Thinking Form Speak Gratitude Careful Tongue Strings Be Careful Thread Hung Subconscious

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.”

Thinking Form Term Quality Gratitude Music Is Notion Instance Comparison Melancholy Indifferent Deaf Good And Bad Mourn

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics