Thoughts on Thanksgiving

"Sincerely giving thanks not only helps us recognize our blessings, but it also unlocks the doors of heaven and helps us feel God's love." President Thomas S. Monson

'When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives." President Gordon B. Hinckley

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." Epictetus
"Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things...And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindles, save those who confess not his hand in all things." Doctrine and Covenants 59:7,21

"Regardless of our circumstances, each of us has much to for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings." President Thomas S. Monson

"Pride destroys our gratitude and sets up selfishness in its place. How much happier we are in the presence of a grateful and loving soul, and how careful we should be to cultivate, through the medium of a prayerful life, a thankful attitude toward God and man." President Joseph F. Smith

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." Unknown

"To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven." President Thomas S. Monson

(These quotes were in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints November 2010 Ensign. It is from an address given by a living prophet of God, Thomas S. Monson, during October's General Conference of the church. The talk is entitled, The Divine Gift of Gratitude.)