"The whole cosmos is being renewed moment by moment through sacrifice: brought back to its source through thanksgiving, and received anew as a gift in all its primordial freshness...To those among us who have entered into this mystery through faith it need not be explained; to others it cannot be explained. But to the extent to which we have given room in our hearts to gratitude, we all have a share in this reality, by whatever name we may call it. (It is a reality which we shall never fully take hold of. All that matters is that we let it take hold of us.) All that matters is that we enter into that passage of gratitude and sacrifice, the passage which leads us to integrity within ourselves, to concord with one another and to union with the very Source of Life."

Brother David Steindl-Rast
"Gratitude & the Heart of Prayer"