(6/21/99)
"God has so abundantly blessed this continent with the precious things of the earth that its inhabitants do not rightly value His rich gifts to them, but use them with careless hands, thoughtless heads and ungrateful hearts. This is sinful; the Lord did not make anything to be wasted, and He is angry with those who thus abuse His gifts."

George Q. Cannon 
"Gospel Truth", p. 516

(6/22/99)
"The Prophet Joseph Smith said many years ago that one of the greatest sins for which the Latter-day Saints are guilty is the sin of ingratitude. I wonder, my brethren and sisters, if we are fully grateful for all that we enjoy."

Ezra Taft Benson 
"So Shall Ye Reap", p. 17

(6/23/99)
"Since we can have no justified complaints against the Lord, who gives us so much, griping simply does not go with gospel gratitude. Ingratitude reflects the intellectual dishonesty of those who can enumerate their grievances but cannot count their blessings."

Neal A. Maxwell 
"Notwithstanding My Weakness", p. 52-53

(6/24/99)
"Our society is afflicted by a spirit of thoughtless arrogance unbecoming to those who have been so magnificently blessed. How grateful we should be for the bounties we enjoy. Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency."

Gordon B. Hinckley 
"Faith, the Essence of True Religion", p. 81

(6/25/99)
"[God] experiences a deep, divine disappointment in us when we are ungrateful and when we are unwilling to confess God's hand in all things. (D&C 59:21.) But it is because of what our sustained ingratitude does to us, not to Him."

Neal A. Maxwell 
"Sermons Not Spoken", p. 85