Quotes about Gift

The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of God's love. But to say that being lifted up into the kingdom of love is a divine gift does not mean that we wait passively until the gift is offered to us.

I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.