In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
The grace of God is courtesy.