Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.