Quotes about Gifts
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
— Pope Francis
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ's name.
— Timothy Keller
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
— GK Chesterton
We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.
— Beth Moore
The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.
— Martin Luther
God sends his angels to protect us and his Word as a star to guide us. Then he surrounds us with his grace. We become his depot, the distribution point of God's gifts.
— Max Lucado
If you delight more in God's gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
— Charles Spurgeon
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
— Ignatius of Loyola
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
— John Piper
God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
— Ann Voskamp
We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
— Ann Voskamp