Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Schirch

I think the international outpouring of gratitude for the work Tom was doing is a wonderful thing.

William Wilberforce

We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.

William Wilberforce

May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.

Lord Shaftesbury

Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

Robert Creeley

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Richard Paul Evans

There can be no joy without gratitude.

Richard Paul Evans

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

Richard Paul Evans

...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.

Richard Whately

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind...

Lord Byron

Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still

Roger Wyer

Joy is here now. We don't have to wait for the weekend.

Mike McGinnis

He was a joy to watch. Berger really had it going. He's going to be tough to stop.

Pope Benedict

Today I have the joy of presiding for the first time over a canonization rite.

Jean Killy

It is not an obligation but a joy

Ron Wistrom

He was exasperating at times, but he was always a joy.

William Butler Yeats

he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'

Rob Halford

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.