Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.