Gifts Quotes
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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.
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To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can bring:
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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.
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True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.
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Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?
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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.
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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.
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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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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.
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
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Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
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God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
