Quotes About Gift

Every good relationship we have is a gift of God's grace. Left to ourselves, nothing good would happen. Our problem has everything to do with sin and our potential has everything to do with Christ. Sin always draws towards self-interest. It is possible that even in our most altruistic moments are driven by what we get out of them

Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.

If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.

Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant nonrenewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully, intentionally, wisely, and productively.

A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

God's generosity is nowhere better seen than in the gift of patience.

L'amore non è mai migliore di chi ama. I malvagi amano con malvagità, i violenti con violenza, i deboli con debolezza e gli stupidi in modo stupido, ma l'amore di un uomo libero non è mai sicuro. on c'è dono per la persona amata. Solo chi ama possiede il suo dono d'amore. Chi è amato viene reciso, neutralizzato, congelato nello sguardo dell'occhio interiore di chi ama.

There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralised, frozen in the glare of the lover's inward eye.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

There was something wonderful - something potent even - about a present before it's unwrapped. Especially an unexpected one. Anything could be inside.

Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

Before dragging it down through mosses, sedges, and small twin flowers—plants the deer had eaten all its life—he'd taken a sharp knife to the belly, opened it and found a fragrance, the moist smell of Earth, something Gramps had spoken of. He had said that when it happens, when the deer gives itself to you this way, it's a gift the hunter must accept with gratitude.

A wife is a gift, Athol. Heaven's best gift, my pa always said. If you can't appreciate the gift, maybe you shouldn't ask for it.

We gather up pictures and bits of our past and scrapbook them into a gift that will last.

I held the mescal up to the light and watched the worm slide across the bottom of the bottle. A gift from a friend just back from Mexico. The worm was fat and white and somewhat dangerous looking with great hallucinogenic properties attributed to it. You were supposed to eat it and it was supposed to make you so high you would need a stepladder to scratch your ass.

I knew that in religious homes, Jesus had something to do with Christmas, but wasn't sure how He was connected to it. Was He a special carpenter in Santa's village? One year I got a BB gun as a gift. I practiced shooting soda cans and empty furniture boxes, but that got boring. I decided I needed to try my skills on a moving target. I'm sorry to say, I shot the neighbor's cat in the leg. The vet bill came and my BB gun went.

Just remember, we are the first Federation citizens to set foot on this world. Our presence here is a gift to us from those who came before; those who first braved unexplored space with a desire to expand their knowledge of the universe.

King Solomon wrote, "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth" (Psalm 127:3–4, emphasis added).

The gift of discernment simply gives you the ability to distinguish what spirit or spirits are at work in a person or an environment.

The goal of any gift of the Spirit is to build trust and help people grow in God. No gift of the Spirit should be used to destroy people's reputations, kill their passion for God or steal their identity.

Our families were herded out of the room, and I snuggled little Ainsley closer, smelling her head, a smell I already recognized. I'd cheerfully kill for her, happily lay down my life for her without a second's hesitation and with a smile on my face. My beautiful baby. My gift.

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

How at first a sweetness; how, by turns, a gift, a darkness.