Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
No Americans have been more impoverished than these who,
nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
~H.U. Westermayer~
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
"thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart~
So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving~
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor.
Hide the dark parts, except so far as
they are breaking out in light!
Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
~Henry Ward Beecher~
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute,
once a year; to the honest man it
comes as frequently as the
heart of gratitude will allow.
~Edward Sandford Martin~
Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope~
