Gifts Quotes
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
There is a place that God has specifically designed for you where all your needs will be supplied, where you'll be happy and fulfilled, and where you'll be using your gifts and talents to the full.
Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with as many people as someone else who has special gifts from God.
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.
Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
I feel that one of the greatest gifts you can give someone is the truth, but sometimes my words will get stuck on the way out.
When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
Our natural gifts and abilities are limited, but when augmented by inspiration and guidance of the Holy Ghost, our potential increases many fold.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.
Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.
My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.
Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.