Gifts Quotes

God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

No matter how potent your talents are, they remain to be out of use until you take time to develop them to their optimum level. This calls for preparation. Through preparation, personal branding, consistent exposure and productive connections, you set up a condition for your dreams to flourish and bear fruits!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

~ Gabriel Byrne

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.

~ Nan Robertson

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

~ Jim Butcher

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

~ Penelope Lively

And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.

~ Seamus Heaney

Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

~ Orrin Woodward

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

~ Ann Patchett

You have been given all the good things one must have, be proud of yourself and enjoy your gifts.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

God will make known to you how He wants you to use this gift.

~ Jennifer Beckstrand

Been eating candies, have you?You sent those? She kept her mouth closed as much as possible.Of course. He picked up the brown bad of candy on the table. What's your... He trailed off as he weighed the bad in his hands. Didn't I give you three pounds of candy?She smiled impishly.You ate half the bag!Was I supposed to save it?I would have liked some!You never told me that.Because I didn't expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!She snatched the bag from him and put it on the table. Well, that just hows poor judgement on your part, doesn't it?

~ Sarah J. Maas

In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

~ Hiro Fujiwara

One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided attention.

~ Oprah Winfrey

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

~ Ann Patchett

As long as a man has, he must give. And when he has nothing more, he is free. This freedom is far nobler than the former giving, for he no longer gives in accident but in essence, and he no longer gives one gift, but all gifts, and he no longer gives to just one man, but to all men.

~ John Tauler

The operative word here is 'gifts', plural, meaning not everyone will necessarily have the same combination of gifting that God has ordained for them to utilize in fulfilling their purpose within the Body of Christ. In other words, we all have different gifts and therefore niches within which we fit in The Body of Christ 'universal' . ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

Each day provides its own gifts.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

~ Virginia Woolf

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

~ May Sarton

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

~ Michael Sheen

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

~ Lake Bell

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

~ Aeschylus

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

~ Garth Brooks

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

~ Virgil

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

~ Taylor Swift

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

~ William Randolph Hearst

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

~ Bai Ling

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

~ Sherwood Boehlert

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

~ Antisthenes