Psalm 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
NLT Psalm 116:12 What can I offer the LORD for all he has done for me?
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
2 Timothy 3:1-2 But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come [perilous times]. 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, (NAS)
“Ingratitude” can be defined as: “Forgetfulness of, or poor return for, kindness received.”
Gratitude is the awareness and acknowledgment of goodness in ones life.
“To say we feel grateful is not to say that everything in our lives is necessarily great. It just means we choose to be aware of our blessings instead of our misfortunes.”
1Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks unto the LORD
1 Chronicles 16:34 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalm 140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name
1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
"All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy."
"One of the reasons gratitude makes us happier is that it forces us to abandon a belief that may accompany severe depression: that the world is devoid of goodness, love, and kindness and contains nothing but randomness and cruelty."
"High levels of thankfulness were associated with reduced risk for what researchers referred to as internalizing disorders (depression,
phobias, bulimia) and externalizing disorders (antisocial personality, alcohol and drug dependence)"
"Children who practice grateful thinking have more positive attitudes toward school and their families"
"With all of our chasing, wanting, needing, and craving, it's a wonder that we even know what satisfaction feels like. Yet, in moments of gratitude, all of these desires are washed away and only a deep sense of satisfaction takes place. Everything feels right, nothing missing, nothing wanted."
"Gratitude research is beginning to suggest that feelings of thankfulness have tremendous positive value in helping people cope with daily problems, especially stress,"
"Grateful people take better care of themselves and engage in more protective health behaviors like regular exercise, a healthy diet…"
"Just 15 minutes a day focusing on things you’re thankful for will significantly increases your body’s natural antibodies"
"Gratitude leads to increased feelings of connectedness, improved relationships, and even altruism (an unselfish concern for the welfare of others at the expense of self)"
George Simmel, a prominent early-twentieth-century Swiss sociologist, referred to gratitude as "the moral memory of mankind…if every grateful action ... were suddenly eliminated, society (at least as we know it) would break apart."
Puritan writer JR Miller 1896:
"The only way to get thanksgiving into its true place in our lives—is to have it grow into a habit. A habit is a well worn path. If we find that we have been leaving thanksgiving out of our lives, if we have been allowing ourselves to grumble instead of praise, if we have indulged in unhappiness instead of in gladness—we should instantly set about the breaking of a new path, a thanksgiving path. It will not be easy at first, for gloomy dispositions when long indulged persist in staying in our lives. But they can be conquered, and we should not pause in our effort until we have trained ourselves entirely away from everything that is cheerless and ungrateful, into the ways of joy and song."
"Gratitude is the way the heart remembers - remembers kindnesses, cherished interactions with others, compassionate actions of strangers, surprise gifts, and everyday blessings."
"Even when you’re faced with huge obstacles or something tragic has happened in your life, it’s important to be grateful for the lessons that come from these events because without them, we can’t learn and grow."
"Let's be blunt. Gratitude is not for wimps. Cultivating this attitude takes work. You have to be strong to be grateful, especially when things seem to be going against you. It takes a strong-willed person to stare problems in the face and say, "It's not over. Better times are ahead. I'm going to find something to be grateful for, and I'm going to hang onto it no matter what."
Job 2:10 What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
Holocaust survivor on gratitude:
"Absolutely. Right after the war, I went around telling people,
"Thank you just for living, for being human." And to this day, the words that come most frequently from my lips are thank you. When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude ... For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile."
1 Chronicles 17:16 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD; and he said: "Who am I, O LORD God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
Psalm 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD
1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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