Quotes About Gifts

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

You didn't accidentally get your personality, looks and gifts. You were designed on purpose to be the way you are. You have what you need to fulfill your destiny.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.

My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

Gratitude is the appreciation of things that are not deserved, earned or demanded - those wonderful things that we take for granted.

We(humans) have immortal capabilities, its just that we take them for granted.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Create always: As God has seen fit in His perfection to give you such abilities, work and share of your gifts.

Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses.

Sometimes blessings are indiscriminate.

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.''-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup

Be thankful for the smallest blessing," Thomas à Kempis had written, "and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God." Father

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw

Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world.

only through losing ourselves and becoming reliant on God can we discover how to use those gifts the way he wants us to use them. We will find the artist God intends us to be when we empty ourselves of self and become open to his plan and to the inspiration of his Holy Spirit. Only then will we experience personal artistic revival.

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.

The only way that apple trees, lilies, marriage and sex, gender and procreation, or even Bibles or language can reveal to us so much about the nature of God is that they're good gifts that bear the imprint of their divine Maker.

The Lord has given gifts to us as well, which, like Israel's of old, are also assignments: children, ministries, churches, cities, nations and many other things.

She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She understood now the case of girls like herself to whom this kind of thing happened. They gave all they had, but their all was not enough; it could not buy more than a few moments...

All that is most valuable can be had for nothing. They come as presents from the hand of the Creator, and neither air nor sky, nor beauty, genius, health, or strength, can be bought or sold.