Gift Quotes

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.

~ Madeleine L'engle

God's Love for you through Christ Jesus is more than a Valentine's card or gift.

~ Chris Chacko

We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

As much as salvation is a free gift, the truth is that keeping salvation comes with a price; you must live by God's law through Jesus Christ.

~ Felix Wantang

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.

~ Dillon Burroughs

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

~ J.d. Greear

hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness,humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share.

~ Nikki Rowe

A gift.A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Our own random acts of kindness allow us to receive a gift each day in our hearts.

~ Ron Baratono

Life is a gift, so appreciate it. Love is abundant, so share it.Enthusiasm is infectious, so spread it.Kindness is divine, so embody it.Peace is the only way, so embrace it.The earth is your home, so take care of it. Life is for happiness, so enjoy it.

~ Debasish Mridha

So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.

~ Anthony Liccione

When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Giving is the sacred-gift that creates wealth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are able to know the right thing, you are intelligent. But when you choose that right thing to do, you are wise. This means people can get money, education, marriage, and good health and not get wisdom. Wisdom is the number one gift for a Godly success.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Often the experiences that challenge us the most are the ones that harbor the greatest gift.

~ Niurka

Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!

~ Steve Maraboli

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

~ Boris Pasternak

If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it

~ Sunday Adelaja

God expects fruits from every calling, every talent and every gift

~ Sunday Adelaja

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

~ Jim George

If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.

~ T.f. Hodge

Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.

~ J.d. Stroube

Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The root of failure is self-pity. It leads to assumption that our needs are not being met now and probably never will be.

~ Prince Akwarandu

Trust that you have everything you need right now to be successful financially. All it takes to bring out your natural, God-given gifts is your desire, determination, and a deep faith that you have a genius and a gift that is unique.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

~ Richard Rohr

Your gift is your grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

~ Peter A. Levine

There’s nothing like the gift of understanding.

~ A.d. Posey

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God’s grace—not earned by your works.

~ Jim George

I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream.

~ Jane Lotter

GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

~ Max Lucado

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.

~ Josef Pieper

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices.

~ Dave Donovan