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Tag: Thankfulness

  • Thankfulness

    Thankfulness is a soil in which pride does not easily grow John StottClick to Tweet

  • Giving thanks in a wheelchair

    But many decades in a wheelchair have taught me to not segregate my Savior from the suffering He allows, as though a broken neck–or in your case, a broken ankle, heart, or home–merely “happens” and then God shows up after the fact to wrestle something good out of it. No, the God of the Bible…

  • Life’s trials

    But we live in a fallen, broken world, and every season has its share of trials, ranging, as Elisabeth Elliot has said, from “traffic jams to tumors to tombs.” Nancy Leigh DeMossClick to TweetFrom the book “Choosing Gratitude” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Still come up thankful

    the capacity to respond to adversity with faith and gratitude is not limited to spiritual “superheroes” and biblical characters. For every Joni Eareckson Tada or Corrie ten Boom, there are countless others whose names and stories few have ever heard, who endure the worst that life has to offer and still come up thankful. Not…

  • Silent gratitude

    Gratitude is not the quiet game. It begs to be expressed, both to God and to others. “Silent gratitude,” Gladys Berthe Stern said, “isn’t much use to anyone.” Nancy Leigh DeMossClick to Tweet

  • Whine or worship

    The importance of this matter of gratitude can hardly be overstated. I’ve come to believe that few things are more becoming in a child of God than a grateful spirit. By the same token, there is probably nothing that makes a person more unattractive than the absence of a grateful spirit. I have learned that…

  • Thankfulness

    “Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.” Henry JouwettClick to Tweet

  • Gratefulness or Bitterness

    If you think what you have is greater than what you deserve that’s where thankfulness comes from. If you think what you deserve is greater than what you gave, that’s where bitterness comes from. Andrew WilsonClick to Tweet

  • Thankfulness

    Thankfulness carries an attitude of humility. Thanksgiving is the only proper way to receive what God has given us because it honors our relationship with Him by expressing trust in His goodness, even if we don’t yet understand what we’ve received. Bill JohnsonClick to Tweet