Thankful and Hopeful Quotes

“Be of good cheer, my brother, for I feel the bottom, and it is sound.”
~Mr. Hopeful, in Pilgrim’s Progress

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” ~ C S Lewis, Mere Christianity

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank
~Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Our whole life should speak forth our thankfulness; every condition and place we are in should be a witness of our thankfulness. This will make the times and places we live in better for us. When we ourselves are monuments of God’s mercy, it is fit we should be patterns of His praises, and leave monuments to others. We should think it given to us to do something better than to live in. We live not to live: our life is not the end of itself, but the praise of the giver.
~ R. Libbes

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

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

Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year – and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.
~Ray Stannard Baker

Forever on Thanksgiving Day; The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit

I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful.
Thou thought’st to help me, and such thanks I give
As one near death to those that wish him live.
~William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well