Dietrich Bonhoeffer Thank Quotations

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?