Favorite Thanksgiving Quotes

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd


Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.  ~Robert Caspar Lintner

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.  ~Theodore Roosevelt

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
~Robert Herrick

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.  ~Cicero


But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
~Margaret Junkin Preston

For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.
~Odell Shepard

In Touch with Charles Stanley

In Touch with Charles Stanley

Hi my friends!
It is 7 AM and very cold outside, the stars are still shinning brightly and reminds me of my childhood when my brother and I would rise early on Christmas morn and walk down the road to our friends about this same time. There was always lots of snow back then and chances were we would always have a white Christmas. It is about this time every year, around Thanksgiving I start dreaming of a white Christmas, maybe just maybe my dream will come true again this year.

Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread:

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Old Bread

I love looking at OLD DAILY BREAD  writings and would like to share these words from the past with you in the now from  Nov.16, 1994.

 Have you heard about the man who took his old car to a dealer and asked him to sell it for him? When the dealer asked how many miles were on it, the man replied, “It’s got 230,000.” The salesman replied, “It’ll never sell unless you turn back the mileage.” So the man left.

When the car salesman hadn’t heard from the man for several weeks, he called him. “I thought you were going to sell that old car.”

“I don’t have to anymore,” came the reply. “It’s only got 77,000 miles on it now. Why should I sell it?”

This story illustrates a spiritual truth. Too many people today are only fooling themselves if they think they’re pleasing God by just changing their external behavior. What they need is a new heart.

The old car still had a sick engine, bad rings, and a transmission that slipped. Turning back its odometer had not changed that! In the same way, people who try to please God by living a good life without first trusting in Christ are like the Pharisees who were clean on the outside but still filthy on the inside (Mt. 23:25).

Good works can’t change your heart. Only personal faith in Christ brings cleansing inside and out. Then your good works and righteous life will be pleasing to God.

We cannot earn new life in heaven
By word or work or worth;
But when we trust in Jesus Christ,
He’ll give to us new birth. —Anon.

Friendship Quotes

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels


Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.  ~Robert Brault, 


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Author Unknown


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.  ~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb


The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.  ~Aristotle


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer