“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”

Johannes A. Gaertner art history professor, theologian, poet

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michelle from winchester, July 25, 2013

How thrilling to discover this quote while looking for material to include in my sermon for the Sunday before Thanksgiving (2011)! Thrilling, because Dr. Gaertner who I have not thought of since I graduated from Lafayette College in 1967 was my art history professor! Yes, divinity lives within my computer! Rev. Don Beaudreault, Unitarian Universalist Minister, Florida

Don B. from Venice, FL, November 16, 2011

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