"Give thanks" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hear your voice—and breathlessly I listen. I hear ye say—'To go to heaven! Mother! we have left thee to see our God!' Beloved shades! if this indeed be so, Then let these bitter tears be turned to joy. It is not meet that I should mourn for ye, Since me ye have exchanged for my God. To Him give thanks! and in your holy songs, Pray that your parents' fate may ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca
... Let us give thanks that even the humble muskrat still holds his own. A century or two hence and posterity may look with wonder at his ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... things that they had in the mountains. While all these people were with the Spaniards, a great multitude was seen to come, with the husband of the woman whom the Admiral had honored and sent away. They wore hair over their shoulders, and came to give thanks to the Christians for the honor the Admiral had done them, and for the gifts. The Christians reported to the Admiral that this was a handsomer and finer people than any that had hitherto been met with. But the Admiral says that he does not see how they can be a finer ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... for ever? And all those girls! Sorry enough they would be to have to die, and leave their dancing and flirtations and the establishments they hope to have! It wouldn't be much comfort to them to promise them they should sing. Charlie, I want a hymn that shall give thanks that I am alive, ...
— On the Church Steps • Sarah C. Hallowell
... con- tain absolute Truth, and my necessity was to tell it; therefore I did this even as a surgeon who wounds [25] to heal. I was a scribe under orders; and who can refrain from transcribing what God indites, and ought not that one to take the cup, drink all of it, and give thanks? ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
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