We must aim at a habit of gratitude which has no relation to present necessities, no eye to the future. Emotional feeling towards a possible benefactor may easily be mistaken for the grateful temper; but the gratitude which fills our heart and guides our conduct when we are well and safe, forgets self, and the interests and prospects of self, in the joy of thankful remembrance. And as this grateful spirit is the source of joy, so, in a sense, it is the source of religion in the soul. The grateful spirit alone believes, because it alone acknowledges the source of its life and being, the author and fountainhead. The grateful spirit alone finds out God; to it alone He reveals Himself.—
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We must aim at a habit of gratitude which has no relation to present...
From the July 1926 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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