"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate...!!!"
Poet: Elbert Hubbard...!!!
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"Happiness is gratitude doubled by wonder...!!!"
Poet: G.K-Chesterton...!!!
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"For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus & your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers...!!!"
Poet: Ephesians 1:15-16 (Bible Verses)...!!!
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"GOD has two dwellings, one in heaven, & the other in a meek & thankful heart...!!!"
Poet: Izaak Walton...!!!
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"When you give & carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling. It is as though something inside your body responds & says, (Yes, this is how I ought to feel...!!!)"
Poet: Rabbi Harold Kushner...!!!
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing & appreciating what we do have...!!!
Poet: Frederick Keonig...!!!
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"On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe & healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been...!!!"
Poet: Bobby Jindal...!!!
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"The Christian who walks with the Lord & keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing & thanksgiving all day long...!!!"
Poet: Warren W-Wiersbe...!!!
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"It has been an unchangeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board & that turkey is uneatable without it...!!!"
Poet: Alistair Cooke...!!!
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"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor...!!!"
Poet: Phyllis Diller...!!!"
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"Thanksgiving giving thanks in everything prepares the way that GOD might show us His fullest salvation in Christ...!!!"
Poet: ANN-Voskamp...!!!
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"I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving...!!!"
Poet: Craig Ferguson...!!!
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"Gratitude is a quality similar to Electricity: it must be produced & discharged & used up in order to exist at all...!!!"
Poet: William Faulkner...!!!
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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...!!!"
Poet: Henry Ward Beecher...!!!
Poet: Henry Ward Beecher...!!!
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"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much...!!!"
Poet: Estonian Poverb...!!!
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"Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t...!!!"
Poet: Sendo Markas...!!!
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"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory...!!!
Poet: Betty Smith...!!!
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"Thanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn’t learned to be content....lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better...!!!"
Poet: Robert Flatt...!!!
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"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled...!!!"
Poet: Charles Haddon Spurgeon...!!!
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"If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence...!!!"
Poet: G.A-Johnston Ross...!!!
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"There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin...!!!"
Poet: Craig Ferguson...!!!
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"For hearts that are kindly, with virtue & peace, & not seeking blindly a hoard to increase, for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan, for souls still believing in heaven & man, for homes that are lowly with love at the board, for things that are holy, I thank thee, O LORD...!!!"
Poet: Walt Mason...!!!
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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, & gratitude...!!!"
Poet: D-Waitley...!!!
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"The Unthankful heart.... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings...!!!
Poet: Henry Ward Beecher...!!!
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"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his love endures forever...!!!
Poet: Chronicles 16:34 (Bible Verses)...!!!
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"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart...!!!"
Poet: Seneca...!!!
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"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. & more truly for what I have not received...!!!"
Poet: Storm Jameson...!!!
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"I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to Thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself }specially if the light be low on the horizon} & though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons...!!!"
Poet: Jim Elliot...!!!
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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...!!!"
Poet: Edward Sandford Martin...!!!
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GOD gave us our relatives, thank GOD we can choose our friends...!!!"
Poet: Ethel Watts Mumford...!!!
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"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude...!!!"
Poet: Cynthia Ozick...!!!
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GOD gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say (Thank you...???)"
Poet: William Arthur Ward...!!!
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"Thankfulness is the 'chief exercise of godliness' in which we ought to engage during the whole of our life. (Gratitude is the heart ... of the Christian life...!!!)"
Poet: Haim...!!!
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"I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness & will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High...!!!"
Poet: Psalm 7:17 (Bible Verses)...!!!
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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...???"
Poet: Erma Bombeck...!!!
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"Thou that has given so much to me, Give one thing more a grateful heart, Not thankful when it pleases me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise...!!!"
Poet: George Herbert...!!!
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"Small cheer & great welcome makes a merry feast...!!!"
Poet: William Shakespeare. (A Great Poet)...!!!
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"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American...!!!"
Poet: O-Henry...!!!
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"Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my Eucharistic thanks...???"
Poet: Ann Voskamp...!!!
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"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day...!!!"
Poet: Robert Caspar Lintner...!!!
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"It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin...!!!"
Poet: Thomas Aquinas...!!!
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"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, & then I killed them & took their land...!!!"
Poet: Jon Stewart...!!!
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"I thank you GOD for this most amazing day, for the leaping green spirits of trees, for the blue dream of sky & for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes...!!!
Poet: E.E-Cummings...!!!
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"To be grateful is to recognize the love of GOD in everything He has given us- & He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him...!!!"
Poet: Thomas Merton (Thoughts on Solitude)...!!!
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"Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly & with clear eyes, believe in your own time & place. There is not, & there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in...!!!"
Poet: Phillips Brooks...!!!
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"Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, & let there be for every pulse a Thanksgiving, & for every breath a song...!!!"
Poet: Konrad von Gesner...!!!
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"Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour...!!!"
Poet: Augusten Burroughs...!!!
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"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day...!!!"
Poet: IRV-Kupcinet...!!!
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"We can always find something to be thankful for, & there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark & frowning...!!!"
Poet: Albert Barnes...!!!
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"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others & the world remains & is immortal...!!!"
Poet: Albert Pine...!!!
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"When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted...!!!"
Poet: Frederick Franck...!!!
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"Our knowledge of GOD is perfected by gratitude: we are thankful & rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...!!!"
Poet: Thomas Merton (Thoughts on Solitude)
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"Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad & reverent lifting of the heart to GOD in honor & praise for His goodness...!!!"
Poet: Robert Casper Lintner...!!!
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"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed & how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful & expressing that appreciation to GOD & to one another...!!!
Poet: John Clayton...!!!
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