“true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude”
William Wilberforce
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“No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.”
Josef Pieper
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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.”
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“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”
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