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The Windows of Heaven

Posted: 28 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST

"A subtle but significant blessing we receive is the spiritual gift of gratitude that enables our appreciation for what we have to constrain desires for what we want. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment."

—David A. Bednar, "The Windows of Heaven"
Topics: Gratitude

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