30 Thankful Days (November 27th ~ Thanksgiving Eve!)
I can't help you with decorating for Thanksgiving -- and you really don't want me to help with the cooking! So, here are some of my favorite thanksgiving quotes. You can print them out and make a unique place card for each person seated around your table:
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. ~ William Blake
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. ~ John Wooden
It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular . . . It's a little like being married "in general." ~ Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing - a grateful heart! ~ George Herbert
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~ Thomas Fuller
If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God. ~ Thomas a Kempis
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress. ~ Francis Frangipane
Gratitude . . . goes beyond the "mine" and "thine" and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. ~ Henri Nouwen
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. ~ C. S. Lewis
It’s not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, that is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~ W.T. Purkiser
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~ Izaak Walton
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder
Do you have more guests than this? Good for you! here are 15 more savory quotes back on November 17th.
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