Gifts Quotes

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

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

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

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

Each one has their gifts. They are not for you- they are to give!

Hemat Malak

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

M.F. Moonzajer

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

We collected all the bones we could find, and yesterday, Natividad wrapped them in a shawl that she had knitted years ago. It was the most beautiful thing she owned."A thing like that should serve the living," Bankole said when she offered it."You are living," Natividad said. "I like you. I wish I could have met your sister.

Octavia E. Butler

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

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous — because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people — and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.Maybe they will notice how hard you worked, and maybe they won’t — and if they don’t notice, I know it’s frustrating. But, ultimately, that doesn't change anything — because your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but to the gift itself.

John Green

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

some time a big event could not make you happy, but some time a small gift can change the geography of your face.

Rishad sakhi

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

Life's Irony; It is not only the poor that needs gifts, the rich also love to be gifted.

Auliq-Ice

gifts — that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.

Jeanette Winterson

Oreos come in packages. Otherwise known as a gift. Cherish it.

Oreo Queen

The truer you are to yourself, the greater your gifts will manifest themselves.

Tiffany L. Jackson

Try - now's gift.

H.L. Balcomb

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.

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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

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