Quotes about Gift

The word of the justifying grace of God never departs from its position as the final word; it never yields itself simply as a result that has been achieved... The word remains irreversibly the last; for otherwise it would be reduced to the quality of what is calculable, a merchandise, and would thereby be robbed of its divine character. Grace would be venal and cheap. It would not be a gift.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

Jesus does not tell us what we ought to do but cannot; he tells us what God has given us and promises still to give.

My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

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