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So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~ Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving. |
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
~ Henry Ward Beecher. |
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Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
~ Edward Sandford Martin. |
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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~ W. T. Purkiser. |
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"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."
~ Meister Eckhart.
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What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
~ Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving." |
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
~ Victor Hugo. |
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"He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart."
~ J.A. Shedd
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
~ Irv Kupcinet. |
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"Without Thy sunshine and Thy rain
We could not have the golden grain;
Without Thy love we'd not be fed;
We thank Thee for our daily bread."
~ Anonymous.
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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
~ Kin Hubbard.
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"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."
~ Gerald Good. |
