“We ought to make the moments notesOf happy glad Thanksgiving;The hours and days, a silent praiseOf music we are living.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.”
White Eagle
“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.”
Bible
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”
Henry Van Dyke
“Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.”
“I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.”
“Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: / Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.”