Gift Quotes
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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
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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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The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
Gautama Buddha
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
Homer
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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
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This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
Elisabeth Elliot
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What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
Boyd K. Packer
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
Eva Zeisel
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Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
Brian Swimme
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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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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
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The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
Michael Jackson
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What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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
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I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
Steve Southerland
