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Quotes About Bestow

"I haven't much time to be fond of anything," says Sergeant Cuff. "But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times… the roses get it."
~ Wilkie Collins
I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
~ Saint Ignatius
Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.
~ Richard Mitchell
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
~ Calvin Coolidge
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
~ Saint Basil
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
~ Sam Storms
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.
~ Claudia Gray
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
~ Thomas Morell
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.
~ Rodney Crowell
Poor world (said I) what wilt thou doTo entertain this starry stranger?Is this the best thou canst bestow?A cold, and not too cleanly, manger?Contend, ye powers of heav'n and earth,To fit a bed for this huge birth.
~ Richard Crashaw
Take it," he growled. "Let me give you this at least.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.
~ Rumer Godden
Prayer is thus a means ordained to receive what God has planned to bestow.[22]
~ Joel R. Beeke
With all my worldly goods I thee endow.
~ Anonymous
You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.
~ Frank Herbert
The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
~ Hank Stram
only a woman has the power to choose whether or not to bestow.
~ Amos Oz
And time shall force a gift on each.
~ John Ashbery
I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
~ Charles Perrault
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
~ John Updike
Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow
~ John Powell