Make a Joyful Noise with Psalms: Happy Thanksgiving to All, With Much Gratitude

 

 

Thanksgiving on Combat Outpost Cherkatah, Khowst Province, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army, via flickr and Wikimedia Commons.

 

 

"A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful."
    - Book of Common Prayer (1892)

 

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
    - Cicero, Pro Plancio (54 BC)

 

"Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks."
    - Muhammad, Koran, 27.73

 

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."
    - Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)

 

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling."
    - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

 

"The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."
    - Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

 

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
    - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

 

"Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms."
    - The Bible, Psalms, 95:2.

 

 

Sources: Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Bartlett's Quotations, King James Bible, WisdomPortal, Book of Common Prayer.