Quotes About Gifts

But when we commend Christ as the one who satisfies our soul forever—even when there is no health, wealth, and prosperity—then Christ is magnified as more precious than all those gifts.

Would you want to go to heaven if God were not there, only His gifts?

If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire His gifts, but even more, His glory.

Gifts are free. If you work for a gift, it is no longer a gift. Gifts in the truest sense are undeserved. If we feel we deserve it, then it ceases to be a gift and becomes an award. The eternal life God gives us is truly a gift because we don't deserve it in any way.

The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.

to lead an individual along a spiritual path consonant with the person's gifts and personality...[The Jesuit training of novitiates and lay students]

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Is buide lemm frit," he murmured reverently. "Thank you for your gifts to us.

Can it be that man, made in the image of God, endowed with reason and speech, shall alone be unappreciative of His gifts and disobedient to His laws? Will those who might be elevated and ennobled, fitted to be colaborers with Him, be content to remain imperfect in character and to cause confusion in our world?.

After a while, the only presents I wanted were records and books.

Celebrate Valentine's day Giftwise and not Sexwise, unless you are legally married. -Emeasoba George

You might have asked God (almighty) for many things and perhaps he has given you some of them. However, you should ever remain grateful to him (God). For, he gives you many crucial things (air, food, water, shelter, clothing etc) on daily basis. Even without you asking for them. ~Emeasoba George

El talento es el medio más seguro de falsearlo todo, de deformar las cosas y de equivocarse acerca de uno mismo. Sólo poseen una existencia verdadera aquellos a quienes la naturaleza no ha abrumado con ningún don. Sería por ello difícil de imaginar un universo más falso que el universo literario, o un hombre más desprovisto de realidad que el hombre de letras.

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He

I'd bring you flowers

The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble.

God, the principle and the end of all, gives Himself to all to multiply indefinitely His gifts one by the other, and to distribute them, thus inimitably augmented, through each to all. Associated in this work of universal solidarity, we reunite all the scattered fragments of God's perfection manifested in ourselves.

there is no thought in the Bible that poor people would become permanent recipients of gifts of money, year after year, or would become dependent on such gifts. The only exceptions were people who were completely unable to work due to permanent disabilities,

Something as trivial as a little gift of candy to medical residents improves the speed and accuracy of their diagnoses. In general, positive emotion enables us to broaden our understanding of what confronts us. This

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.