We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."