It doesn't need to be Thanksgiving in order to express what you are thankful for. Acknowledging all you have to be thankful for, including relationships, food, shelter, and so on, can feel strengthing.
These are our 27 favorite Christian quotes about being thankful. Use these to share with others or to inspire you to express what you are truly thankful for!
- “If there was ever a secret for unleashing God’s powerful peace in a situation, it’s developing a heart of true thanksgiving.” – Lysa Terkeurst
- “Gratitude produces deep, abiding joy because we know that God is working in us, even through difficulties.” – Charles Stanley
- “I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.” – Tim Tebow
- “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “Edwards [Jonathan Edwards] calls the deeper, primary form of thankfulness ‘gracious gratitude.’ It gives thanks not for goods received, but for who God is: for His character – His goodness, love, power, excellencies – regardless of favors received. And it's real evidence of the Holy Spirit working in a person's life.” – Chuck Colson
- “When we choose thankful prayer over wallowing in anxiety and worry, we are demonstrating an unwavering trust in God.” – Priscilla Shirer
- “God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.” – Kay Arthur
- “A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.” – Billy Graham
- “Genuine thankfulness is an act of the heart’s affections, not an act of the lips’ muscles.” – John Piper
- "We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country." – C.S. Lewis
- “God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.” – Elizabeth Elliot
- “We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.” – J.I. Packer
- “There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them. The first will make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.” – Hannah More
- “Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.” – A.W. Tozer
- “A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.” – John Bunyan
- “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “No matter what our circumstances, we can find a reason to be thankful.” – Dr. David Jeremiah
- “It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “God says to give thanks in everything. That doesn’t mean you need to give thanks FOR everything. You don’t need to give thanks FOR that bad day. Or FOR that bad relationship. Or being passed over at work. Financial hardship. Whatever it is – you are not to give thanks FOR the difficulties, but rather IN the difficulties. That is a very important distinction, and one I think we often miss. Giving thanks IN everything shows a heart of faith that God is bigger than the difficulties and that He can use them, if you approach Him with the right heart and spirit, for your good and His glory.” – Tony Evans
- “If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.” – Max Lucado
- “It’s one thing to be grateful. It’s another to give thanks. Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.” – Tim Keller
- “Gratitude is a decision of the will, and if a decision of the will, the choice resides squarely with us. Deciding to be thankful is no easy task. It takes work.” – Chuck Swindoll
- “Yes, give thanks for ‘all things’ for, as it has been well said ‘Our disappointments are but His appointments.’” – A.W. Pink
- "Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts." – Andrew Murray
- “Be thankful. God has commanded it—for our good and for His glory. God’s command to be thankful is not the threatening demand of a tyrant. Rather, it is the invitation of a lifetime—the opportunity to draw near to Him at any moment of the day.” – Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
- “In happy moments, PRAISE GOD. In difficult moments, SEEK GOD. In quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. In painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD.” – Rick Warren
- “I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess.” – Corrie ten Boom