Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

"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."

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

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.