Quotes about Gifts

It's my belief that God gives us all gifts, special abilities that we have the privilege of developing to help us serve Him and humanity.

John 1:16: "From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

Where do we get the notion that our idea of success and God's are the same? You have written a book; you are a clever manager and promoter; you are a talented artist; you are independently wealthy; you have achieved fame and fortune. Without the gifts of intelligence, imagination, personality, and physical energy—which are all endowed by God—where would you be?

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God's] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him.

We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.

My good deeds are Thine appointments, and Thy gifts; my evil ones are my offences, and Thy judgments.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.