"Give thanks" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Catharine," replied the old Quaker, "for I know that valiant woman and have seen how she can bear the cross. A mother's heart, indeed, is strong in her, and may seem to contend mightily with her faith; but soon she will stand up and give thanks that her son has been thus early an accepted sacrifice. The boy hath done his work, and she will feel that he is taken hence in kindness both to him and her. Blessed, blessed are they that with so little ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... psalms and give thanks. Something has happened. I do not know just what it is, but little thrills of happiness are playing hop-scotch up and down my back, and my bead is ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... when the few of us who yet lived, feared each moment lest the savages would put an end to us, that we saw sailing up into the bay two small ships, and I doubt if there was any among us who did not fall upon his knees and give thanks aloud to God for the help which had come at the very moment when it had seemed that we were ...
— Richard of Jamestown - A Story of the Virginia Colony • James Otis
... however, 'did God deliver me from these villains, and not onely so, but restor'd what they tooke, as twice before he had graciously don, both at sea and land;... for which, and many signal preservations, I am extreamly oblig'd to give thanks to God my Saviour.' ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn
... this—speaking as accurately as a man may, so long afterwards—that when first I spied the house it put no desire in me but just to give thanks. ...
— I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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