Gifts Quotes

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

~ Dr. Myles Munroe

If you wish to see God; look people in the eye, listen to them, and see how they treat other people.

~ Stacy Snapp Killian: Stacyk

God has hidden in each and every one of us so many abilities, gifts and resources that could only be activated by work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

~ J.r. Ward

Love is a gift. One that doesn't need to be returned, just accepted.

~ Kelly Moran

There! I can’t fix the whole country, and it will only last a few days, but I present you with the sun, on behalf of my dreadfully boring magic.”He bows low, holding out his hand. I reach out tentatively, afraid of being burned, but the globe merely hovers above my hand where I slide it on top of Finn’s. It’s golden and deliciously warm and instantly makes me happier and more at ease than I’ve been in weeks.I laugh, delighted, and by the look on Finn’s face you’d think I was the one who had given him an absurd and wonderful gift.

~ Kiersten White

Every good gift and every perfect present comes from God. He is out Father who will always love His children.

~ Pazaria Smith

Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.

~ Sarah Noffke

How generously they shower us with food, literally giving themselves so that we can live. But in the giving their lives are also ensured. Our taking returns benefit to them in the circle of life making life, the chain of reciprocity. Living by the precepts of the Honorable Harvest—to take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

The gifts of God that are hidden within us are designed not only for our own needs but also forthe needs of others.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God gives abilities, talents and gifts to help you get established in your territory.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

~ David Gerrold

If a gift has come to you wrapped in obligations and tied tightly with a ribbon of guilt, then it's not really a gift at all. It's a manipulation. A gift should be something freely given that enhances your life and reminds you lovingly of the giver. If it's not, you simply should not give it a place in your home.

~ Peter Walsh

The gift blesses the giver.

~ Hilary Mantel

Sometimes the best gifts aren't convenient at the time.

~ Regina Jennings

We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.

~ T.f. Hodge

No, that was my privilege.

~ Dodie Smith

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.

~ Parker J. Palmer

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . .

~ Carew Papritz

What are the gifts given to we who live Below?Long life, health, strength, and happiness.What is the curse of those who live Above?Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.Is this fair?It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below.Then give thanks.

~ Ally Condie

You don't give a gift to shape someone into the person you want him to be. You give a gift because it's something you couldn't bear to be without, but it's even more unthinkable for the other person to be without it.

~ Will Chancellor

It is customary for those who wish to have the most beautiful ones to endeavourer to offer them gifts of those things which they hold most precious in order to win their hearts.

~ Auliq Ice

...crossed the room to where a selection of implements was arranged on a table top. These could have been mistaken for the trade tools of a cook, physician, or torturer, save for the fact that the surface on which they rested was a slab of polished pink marble, topping a white and gilt dressing table-cum-sculpture, done up in the new, hyper-Baroque style named Rococo. It was adorned, for example, with several cherubs, bows drawn, eyes asquint, as they drew beads on unseen targets, butt cheeks polished to a luster with jeweler’s rouge. It had, in other words, all the earmarks of a gift that had been sent to the princess by someone with a lot of money who did not know her very well.

~ Neal Stephenson

When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.

~ Todd Stocker

If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your burdens are perfectly measured and gifted to you according to your resistance.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.

~ David Jeremiah

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

~ Jill Briscoe

Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Become a gift in the lives of others and you will always be well received.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I can’t feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

~ J.z. Colby

Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been gifted with something almost as rare: an open and eager mind. She had the gift of watching and listening, the gift of taking all the hurts and happenings of others' lives and understanding their purpose.

~ William Joyce

Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.

~ Siri Mitchell

I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)

~ Lois Lowry