Quotes About Gift

He lost the paradoxical gift for being separate and alone and yet intimately connected, mind-wired to distant things.

Speed is the last excitement left, the one thing we haven't used up, still naked in its potential, the mysterious black gift that thrills the millions.

Love can't be earned, it can only be given.

which I thought was a gift, until it proved to be a curse. Life is all a matter of choosing which voices to tune in and which to tune out, a lesson I learned long before most people, but one that took me longer than most to put to good use.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. -Mother Teresa

Interrupted by blood, bile, and sticky white slivers of bone and brain were the words Pamwe Chete; the gift from Rich Hastings had taken another soul.

His beauty was his true vocation

God created you to be—a gift of His love to others.

In 1251, the King of Norway gave Henry III a polar bear as a present.

The individual human life span is brief and, in the long view, inconsequential,' he said. 'We are children one day and signing out the next. Therefore, in the brief moment we are allotted, live reasonably, be compassionate, and when your hour comes, accept it without histrionics. Never forget that your handful of hours is a supreme gift. Use them wisely, do not fritter them away, and remember that your life is not an entitlement.

God gave me my talent and I was afraid of facing him one day if I didn't use it.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

I adore correspondence. When a letter arrives from a friend it is like getting a small present.

Elvis doesn't share our gift of matrimonial telepathy, though. And he did have a plastic brain. He still looked clueless.

May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233) Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)

Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. My

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

Al ritiro dei novizi hai dato una definizione bellissima di grazia: «Grazia, o amore, o misericordia, sono tre versioni dei salmi. La coerenza è una grazia, e se è una grazia è una festa. Perché la grazia significa che tu ti trovi sul tavolo un dono, un augurio: è la tua festa. Questa è ogni istante del vivere cristiano. Può essere ogni ora del vivere cristiano, è la tua festa. Il tempo ci è dato per questa festa».

Y ese ruido? ¡¿No habrás roto la cajita de música?! -¿Cuál? -La que te regaló la abuela, no la habrás roto, ¿no? -Total no era linda. -¡¿Como era?! ¿La rompiste? Te mato, Natacha, abrí la puerta.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death ... the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.