Max Lucado Quotes

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings.

When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

My brothers and sisters, do we remember to give thanks for the blessings we receive? Sincerely giving thanks not only helps us recognize our blessings, but it also unlocks the doors of heaven and helps us feel God's love.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

I pretty much always feel gratitude. I thank God throughout the day.

When you are grateful, that allows God to do great things in your life.

We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

In everything give thanks

Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

Gratitude is the the energy of faith.

I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.

The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

We can never bring anything to us unless we are GRATEFUL for what we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly GRATEFUL for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. That is the power of GRATITUDE!