“Be grateful for small mercies.”
“I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.”
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.”
“Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.”
“Life in a police state magnifies the small mercies that it leaves alone until they become disproportionate to their significance; at the same time it banalises the worst travesties into mere routine.”