Gift Quotes
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
George Eliot -
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
Brennan Manning
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... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
John Ruskin -
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.
Judith Jamison -
Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.
Elena Ferrante -
I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
Steve Southerland -
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
Sean Penn
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Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.
Beverly Jenkins -
What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
Chinmayananda Saraswati -
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
Martin Luther -
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Some men are willing to die for their faith but will not fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. By walking in his steps and through his atonement we can gain the greatest gift of all--eternal life--which is that kind of life of the great Eternal One, our Father in heaven.
Ezra Taft Benson -
Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?
Elisabeth Elliot -
Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
Ernest Holmes -
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams -
I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.
Ernest Holmes
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Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
Brian Swimme -
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.
Elisabeth Elliot -
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
Boyd K. Packer -
Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.
Marcel Proust