As Thanksgiving approaches, we reflect on our blessings and give thanks to God for all He has done for us. Even during times of tribulation, sorrow and stress, if we look for the silver lining…we will find it!
The Saints were always grateful to God. Even during suffering they gave God glory and praise.
The following quotes help us on our journey of faith to always turn to God in gratitude and trust…asking God to lead us.
1. Remember the past with gratitude. Live the present with enthusiasm. Look forward to the future with confidence.
2. Jesus does not demand great action from us but simply surrender and gratitude.
3. A single “Blessed be God” in adversity is worth more than a thousand acts of thanksgiving in prosperity.
St. John of Avila
4. Prayer is an aspiration of the heart. It is a simple glance directed to heaven. It is a way of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy.
5. I ought to die of shame to think I have not already died of gratitude to my good God.
6. If the only prayer, you said in your life was “thank you”, that would suffice.
7. “Make it a habit to raise your heart to God, in acts of thanksgiving, many times a day. Because He gives you this and that… Because someone has despised you… Because you don’t have what you need, or because you do have it. And because He made His Mother, who is also your Mother, so beautiful. Because He created the sun and the moon and this animal or that plant. Because He made that man eloquent and you He left slow of speech… Thank Him for everything, because everything is good.”
8. Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
9. Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
10. When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.
St. Anthony the Great
11. I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.
12, Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
13. I give thanks to God, who has granted me unshaken faith and fervent courage in times of adversity.
14. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown. Man, should always firmly believe, that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.
15. For me, prayer means launching out of the heart toward God; a cry of grateful love from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it is a vast supernatural force that opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.
16. My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desireable in all that is ahead.
17. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.
18. Let your whole life be spent in self-surrender, in prayer, in work, in humility, in giving thanks to our good God.
19. Believe and adore. Believe that Jesus Christ is in this sacrament as truly as He was nine months in the womb of Mary, as real as He was nailed to the Cross. Adore in humility and gratitude.
20. Gratitude is the memory of the Heart.
21. Everything fades away, but not our gratitude.
22. Would that I exhaust myself in acts of thanksgiving and gratitude toward this Divine Heart, for the great favor He shows us, in deining to accept our help to make Him known, loved and honored. He reserves innfinite blessings for all those who devote themselves to this work.
23. Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
24. O my God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to thee thy mercies toward me.
25. Embracing gratitude in the face of adversity requires a heart open to grace.
