Eric Scheske

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Gargoyle Immortality

> A cathedral is offering people the opportunity to have their face immortalised in stone on its spires. > St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne has come up with a novel fundraising plan for people to have their likeness carved on one of about 170 stone figures - for

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G.K. Chesterton infuriated some Americans back in 1930 when he said, while visiting New York on Thanksgiving Day, that the English should institute their own special Thanksgiving Day–to celebrate that the Pilgrim Fathers had left. No wonder he felt that way. Consider The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian

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"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." William Faulkner

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"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting." St. Jerome

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TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. Ambrose Bierce

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"Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving..." Psalms 147:7

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"And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks." John Taylor

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"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" G.K. Chesterton

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"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." Meister Eckhart

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"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor." George Washington