Posts tagged gratitude
Posts tagged gratitude
In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin;
A grass-blade’s no easier to make than an oak.
But however these two great principles of life – gratitude for the present and trust for the future, and the reformer’s impatience at existing ills and haste to meet them, — however these two great principles may at times clash in the interpretation of human history, in the conduct of the single life they need strike no discord.
I am grateful what I am and have. Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance, giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
Conducting lives of gratitude, we remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy; we honor our fathers and mothers; we refuse to kill, adulterate, or steal from our loves; and we won’t bear false witness against or covet the possessions of our neighbors. Everything true, good, and beautiful streams directly from a soul full of thanksgiving.
Ours is a faith of moral work not because we think morality is a sufficient religion but because we know of not better way of showing our gratitude to God and our confidence in one another.
Sermonizers…assume that the Pilgrims were thankful for having survived. It seems to me that they were able to survive because they were thankful
Through living our thankfulness, moment by moment, we claim our true humanity and bless the Creation from whence we came and to which we will ultimately return.
I am made up of the world I inhabit. Thus, I am responsible to nurture the people and world upon whom I wholly depend…the ethic of gratitude demands that we focus on three areas that have been an afterthought for traditional religious ethics: (1) the status of disadvantaged and marginalized people, especially women; (2) the way we treat animals and plants that provide our sustenance; and (3) the way we care for the environment
Light of Mercy may we live boldly in generosity, grateful for the grace that carries us.
