"Gratitude admits that we are beneficiaries of an unearned bequest; we are cripples leaning on the cross shaped crutch of Jesus Christ; we are paralytics living minute by minute in the iron lung of God's mercy; we are children asleep in heaven's stroller...Proud people don't admit being helpless, needy & sin-sick. Proud people don't give thanks. Tight-lipped, they take the diamond of God's glory, enter the pawn shop of pride & hock it for the broken marble of self-reliance. Then they take their idol home, set it on the mantle of their mind & bow down to it in a hundred different ways every day."

~John Piper