Quotes About Gift

Chiara grew serious. 'Our generation hardly knows what happiness is,' she said. 'Everything's been messed up for us. Even when the war is over, there'll be years of gloom to follow. Take this in both hands, darling. It's a gift from the gods.

Potential is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to God.

When I was in college, I wanted to be Joshua. Every time there was an altar call, I responded. Why? Because I didn't want to leave whatever gift God wanted to give me at the altar.

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Life is what it is, a gift that is given to us for a time—like a library book—that must eventually be returned. How should we treat this book? If we are able to remember that it is not ours to begin with—one that we're entrusted with, to care for, to study and learn from—perhaps it would change the way we treat it while it's in our possession.

Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid. Penny: So you met my mom?

Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals (as by the divine light of illumination) the predestined arc of our days. This is no small gift. With it we can neutralize all but the greatest losses, reduce even the greatest bastards to nothing more than bit actors in the drama of our lives, put on this earth for the sole purpose of forwarding our cause. Blessed are those who can believe their own stories.

Grace is the greatest gift anyone could have ever given us. It should humble us, prompt us to make our lives right.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?

Remember: There's a reason the fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.

ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.