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Quotes About Gift

The price I paid for this covering was astronomical—My own blood. You could never purchase such a royal garment, no matter how hard you worked. Sometimes you forget that My righteousness is a gift, and you feel ill at ease in your regal robe. I weep when I see you squirming under
~ Sarah Young
Today is a precious gift. The present moment is where I meet with you, beloved. So seek My Face throughout this day that I have made. I have carefully prepared it for you—with tender attention to every detail. I want you to rejoice and be glad in it.
~ Sarah Young
practice walking in this garment of salvation. When your behavior is unfitting for one in My kingdom, do not try to throw off your royal robe. Instead, throw off the unrighteous behavior. Then you will be able to feel at ease in this glorious garment, enjoying the gift I fashioned for you before the
~ Sarah Young
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. —Ephesians 2:8
~ Sarah Young
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! —2 Corinthians 9:15
~ Sarah Young
A book is the best gift, everything best in me I owe to books, book after book, cherish books-they ennoble and refine one's taste, you look in a book but see gobbledygook, a book is man's best friend, it enhances interiors, exteriors, and fox terriers.
~ Sasha Sokolov
Congratulations! We're reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!
~ Scott Lynch
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. . . . Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! (2 Cor. 9:10–11, 15 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
But it is for us to distinguish, to see the difference between wrong done to us and equal wrong done by us; to know that our transient life, no matter how scarred, how broken, how miserable it may be, is also God's miracle and gift; that we may try to improve it, but we may not destroy it.
~ Seamus Deane
Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless; whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass like daylight through the rod's eye or the nib's eye.
~ Seamus Heaney
I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
~ Patti Smith
Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.
~ Storm Constantine, Thin Air
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.
~ Alison Rosen
Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !
~ Rodney Dangerfield
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
~ Simone de Beauvoir
What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
Youth is thy gift, - the youth that baffles Time.
~ Louise Chandler Moulton
Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed
~ Maggie Stiefvater
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
Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.
~ Naomi Alderman
chapter 2 Raised by Wolves The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.
~ Mark Vonnegut