Quotes about Gift
Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Clearly, you are participating in a Love that's being given to you. You are not creating this. You are not generating this. It is being generated through you and in you and for you. You are participating in something larger than yourself and you are just allowing it and trusting it for the pure gift that it is.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Mary is all of us both receiving and handing on the gift. We liked her precisely because she was one of us—and not God!
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Resurrection is contagious, and free for the taking. It is everywhere visible and available for those who have learned how to see, how to rejoice, and how to neither hoard nor limit God's ubiquitous gift.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Asking for something from God does not mean talking God into it; it means an awakening of the gift within ourselves.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Endless theorizing, the taking of sides, and opinions about which we could be right or wrong, trumped and toppled the universally available gift of the Divine Indwelling, the real "incarnation" which still has the power to change the world.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.
- Richard Sibbes
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
- Rick Warren
Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
- Rick Warren
Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back
- Rick Warren
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.
- Laurence Sterne