Quotes About Gift

Staying awake seemed like a gift until, as so often happens with gifts, it became a burden.

Every religion in the world is about man trying to reach up to God, like working your way up the ladder. They're all about striving to achieve something for yourself. Christianity is the only religion about God reaching down to man and offering salvation as a free gift, with the added bonus of a personal relationship with the Creator God through Jesus Christ, who was there in the beginning.

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

You've had more than your share of heartache, honey, but sometimes what looks like a gift is a gift.

A man's hatred could run deeper than any gift could reach.

Every blessing comes down from the Father, not in payment for good done, but as a gift.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.

Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: "He gives moisture to the dead." It was a gift to the shadow world—tears. They would be sacred beyond a doubt.

Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.

what other society would have such a natural regard for her privacy and comfort that the giver would intrude only enough to deposit the gift and not inflict her with the donor?

The gift is the blessing of the giver.

When is a gift not a gift?

El regalo es la bendición de quien lo hace»

How excellent! And if you handed one of them the complete scenario of his life, the unvarying dialogue up to his moment of death- what a hellish gift that's be. What other boredom! Every living instant he be replaying what he knew absolutely. No deviation. He could anticipate every response every utterance over and over and over and over and over and…

My alarm clock didn't buzz. It made a sound like a rooster crowing - my aunt Trudy's idea of a fun birthday gift (p. 5).

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life.

I wouldn't have a thing, not even my name, since I've given that to you as well.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities.

When 'Vida' got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these 'Outlander' things that I'll never open because it's like my sacred thing.

My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.