Gifts Quotes
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There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Church planters need to be aware of their natural gifts as well as their spiritual ones.
Aubrey Malphurs
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Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.
Barbara Holland
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Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.
Gautama Buddha
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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
Satish Kumar
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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.
Gautama Buddha
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One of the greatest gifts we’ve been given out of this administrative nightmare is that marginalized communities are coming together and standing up for each other.
Sarah Kate Ellis
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A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can bring:
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.
Erwin McManus
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You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
Georgette Heyer
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
Seneca the Younger
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As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.
Susan L. Taylor
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.
Gay Hendricks
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The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
Sarah Dessen
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A happy coincidence brought together in Die Brücke the really talented men whose characters and gifts, even in human terms, left them with no other choice than the profession of artist. This form of living, of dwelling and working, though peculiar for a regular human being, was not a deliberate 'epater le bourgeois', but simply a very naive and pure necessity to harmonize art and life. And it was precisely this more than anything else that so tremendously influenced the forms of present-day art. Of course, it was mostly misunderstood and totally distorted, for there the will fashioned the form and gave it meaning, whereas here the unfamiliar form is affixed to habit, like a top hat on a cow.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.
Brigham Young
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I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
Margaret Mitchell
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I'm always praying for a part that would be something that I could be really proud of, in which I could use the gifts God gave me in a positive way.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
