Gift Quotes
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We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.
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Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
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For the first time in his life, he was receiving the priceless gift of a woman's unconditional love and acceptance. It contradicted all that he knew about love, all that he had taught others. And he found himself needing it like a drowning man needs air to breathe and solid ground under his feet.
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I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
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I think it was a gift. I was very disappointed in my skate.
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Perspective is a gift nowadays.
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When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.
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The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
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Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.
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A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.
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Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.
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Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
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Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.
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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
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I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.
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I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
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Not by wisdom do they poets make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.
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You too, find release only in art, you are one of those privileged people who have that gift, and you will be free and at peace so long as you make use of it. Art gives us an inner superiority, for it has scope for every sensation of which human beings are capable, and first and foremost for love, which is the basis for knowledge. The artist loves without wanting to possess, and no one on earth can understand that except other artists, that is why other people think us mad.
