I believe gratitude is like a currency for Grace. The more we show gratitude, the more we feel Divine Grace working in our lives.
Many wise men and women have extolled the virtues of gratitude. Below are some of their thoughts.
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
-- Meister Eckhart
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-- Buddha
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
-- Melodie Beattie
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy--they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust