Quotes About Gift

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that honestly and conscientiously.

Warrior," she murmured, "I offer you the gift of my blood freely. Will you accept it?" "With all my heart," Sylvan growled softly and then he was on her again, biting her, filling her, bonding her to him forever.

Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for it, and is willing to be altered by it. It is not a gift given without cost or transformation, nor one to be used lightly.

The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas.

awoke, and then dozed again. When her new gift watch

I knew, somehow, that this gift, this friendship, would be my salvation.

Shushtari proverb "Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell." It's fair to say that the Shushtari floating in my house

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.

Before ye call I shall answer." This means that "every good and perfect gift" is already man's awaiting his recognition.

For Faith As I am one with God, I am one with my good, for God is both the Giver and the Gift. I cannot separate the Giver from the gift.

We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.

LA VIDA ES UN DON DE DIOS De Dios nos viene el don que, para nosotros, los contiene a todos: La vida. – la vida física, intelectual y moral. Empero, la vida no se mantiene por sí misma. Aquel que nos la ha dado, ha dejado a cargo nuestro el cuidado de mantenerla, desarrollarla y perfeccionarla.

Basically, having a gift for happiness was a bit like being good at maths or games: it depended partly on the development of the brain after you were born, ad even before, but also on how your parents or other adults had brought you up when you were small. And of course on your own efforts and subsequent encounters. 'Nature or nurture,' said the professor. 'Whichever way, the parents are to blame!

To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.

You'd be better at it than me' he told Nettle when he visited her. 'This sort of Unravelling doesn't feel like I'm using a magical gift. Sometimes it's like I'm a ghost walking alongside somebody on a difficult journely. I can point out things they've missed, but I can't walk for them. I can't stop the briars tearing them, or their feet aching. I've never done anything so hard.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord

Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift—the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

Jesus didn't leave a material inheritance to His disciples. All He had when He died was a robe. But Jesus willed His followers something more valuable than gold. He willed us His peace. He said: "My peace I give to you; not as the world gives" [John 14:27 KJV].

Patience is not simply "teeth-clenched" endurance. It is an attitude of expectation. The farmer patiently watches his barren ground because he knows there will be results. He has patience in his labors because there will be products of his labor. So it is in the spiritual realm. God knows the final product of what is happening to us, and He would have us link patience to our faith. Ask God for the gift of patience—and then use it.

Giving up something to follow Christ is not earning salvation; it is giving up what keeps you from salvation. When we hold on to something that is dearer to us than receiving the greater gift of salvation in Christ, we lose.

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.