Famous Quotes

"I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects."

David Brainerd on Thankful

More quotes about Thankful

• "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself."

  Tecumseh on Thankful

• "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 on Thankful

• "When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others."

  Dalai Lama on Thankful

• "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

  Albert Schweitzer on Thankful

• "Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."

  Alan Cohen on Thankful

More quotes by David Brainerd

• "Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others."

• "We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."

• "I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world."

• "We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God."

• "As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws."