Sermon Tone Analysis

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!

--Henry Ward Beecher

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.

--Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You say grace before meals.

All right.

But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

--G.K. Chesterton

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.

Have you used one to say "thank you?" --William A. Ward

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

-- William Shakespeare

Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t.

–Unknown

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age.

Thanksgiving opens the doors.

It changes a child's personality.

A child is resentful, negative—or thankful.

Thankful children

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

--Author Unknown

*The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.

No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

--H.U.

Westermayer*

Some complain that roses have thorns—others rejoice that thorns have roses!

--Unknown

Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world: It is not he who prays most or fasts most, it is not he who gives most alms or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice; but it is he who is always thankful to God, who wills everything that God wills, who receives everything as an instance of God’s goodness and has a heart always ready to praise God for it.

--William Law

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

--Robert Quillen

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

--Kahlil Gibran

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

-- Cicero