Fundamentals Quote by Gordon T. Smith Download Open image “Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.” — Gordon T. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fundamentals Giving Gratitude Life Religion Spiritual Spiritual life Thanks
Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives. — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Copy Share Image
“Henri Nouwen wrote of the spiritual work of gratitude: To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
God asks that we give thanks to Him for whatever blessings we receive from Him. It is easy for us to become mechanical in… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility… — Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work. — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
“Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
“If Roman Catholic Christianity has always struggled with the threat of works righteousness, Reformed Protestantism has always struggled with the threat of cheap grace.… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach… — Adolph Rupp Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
