Spiritual Gratefulness Quotes & Sayings

Thank God for my ADD. I would have killed myself along time ago, but I got bored of it when something else diverted me. — Jason Hartnett

Gratitude is an appreciation of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement. — John Hope

I still have joy in the midst of struggles. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am learning to appreciate the gift of the moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world ... The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal & the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart. — Henry Cloud

I love today, it is a sacred time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. — David Steindl-Rast

We give glory to God of Heaven. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is what keeps the soul alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.
Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — Robert Genn

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking. — Kristin Cashore

O Lord, be magnified for your wondrous works. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not. — Angeles Arrien