Psalm 100:1-5
A psalm. For giving grateful praise.
1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Gratitude is a Great Gift the God has given us...And many of the Psalms speak of gratitude, as does other books in the Bible...
Some of the Psalm verses about gratitude are: I will give thanks to the LORD because of His righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High...I will give thanks to You, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonderful deeds...I will give You thanks in the great assembly; among the throngs I will praise You...I will praise God’s Name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving...Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our Salvation...Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song...For the LORD is the Great God, the Great King above all gods...Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His Name...For the LORD is good and His LOVE endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations...Praise the LORD...Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His LOVE endures forever...Let them give thanks to the LORD for His unfailing LOVE and His wonderful deeds for mankind...Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of His works with songs of joy...Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His LOVE endures forever...Sing to the LORD with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp...
Professor and author Peter Kreeft tells the story of one of his old teachers...“Father Norris Clarke, S.J., my philosophy professor at Fordham, went to Tibet once, on his own, just to converse with the Buddhist monks there...After a day of delightful conversation with the Buddhist abbot about their religions, the abbot said, “Obviously, our two religions are very different...But I think they are also very similar in their root in the depths of the human heart. I would like to test this idea, with your permission...Here are four of my priests who speak good English...I will ask you and them the same question and compare your answers...I have never asked them this question before...The question is this: What is the first requirement for any religion at all?”...Father Clarke thought that was an excellent experiment, so he agreed. He and the four monks wrote their answers on five pieces of paper...When the papers were unfolded and read, the very same single word was found on all five of them...The word was gratitude.”...