Thanksgiving & Gratitude

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Many favors which God gives us ravel out for want of hemming through our unthankfulness; for, though prayer purchases blessings, giving praise keeps the quiet possession of them.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”

Psalm 50:23
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Rest and be thankful.

Inscription on stone seat in the Scottish Highlands

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honour and praise for His goodness.

James R. Miller

This Day's Verse

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!

Psalm 100:4
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
We thank thee for health and remember the sick.
We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless.
We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances stir us to service,
That thy gifts to us may be used for others.
Amen.

Pauline Phillips

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

John Henry Jowett said: “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, Thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing anti-septic.

Clinton C. Cox

This Day's Verse

For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

Nehemiah 12:46
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

A real Thanksgiving is celebrated in real thanksgiving.

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

No sin is small.  It is against an infinite God, and may have consequences immeasurable.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge!  How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!

Romans 11:33
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

It’s a terrible day.  Thanks be to God!

John Doyle

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The whole benefit of trial consists in silence, patience, rest, and resignation. In this condition divine strength is found for the hard warfare, because God Himself fights for the soul.

Miguel de Molinos

This Day's Verse

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

2 Corinthians 9:15
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

If someone predicts their own death and resurrection and pulls it off, I go with whatever that person says.

Andy Stanley

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I must practice unlimited forgiveness because, if I did not, I should be wanting in veracity to myself, for it would be acting as if I myself were not guilty in the same way as the other has been guilty towards me.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.  I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

Psalm 9:1-2
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

God is stripping me of everything to give me Everything.

E. Stanley Jones

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

We tend to misunderstand the link between joy and gratefulness.  We notice that joyful people are grateful and suppose that they are grateful for their joy.  But the reverse is true: Their joy springs from gratefulness.

David Steindl-Rast

This Day's Verse

For only we who believe God can enter into his place of rest.

Hebrews 4:3
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Nothing is too little to be ordered by our Father; nothing too little in which to see His hand; nothing, which touches our souls, too little to accept from Him; nothing too little to be done to Him.

E. B. Pusey

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