Quotes about Gift

We cannot earn what we have always had. What we can do is trust that what God keeps insisting is true about us is actually true.

When you say "yes" to your life and your path and your work in the world, you are entering into this mystery of creation, a mystery in which everybody starts with a blank page, and "everybody" includes you. Now, let's pause and take a breath. You've been given this gift of life. You were not given his gift or her gift. You were given your gift.

Begin whatever you're doing by remembering that you are here and you have been given a gift.

Giving the gift is reward enough. That's where the life is. That's where the joy is.

what kept coming back to me was that one word gift. Receiving, and then passing it along. Opening up to power and force and energy way beyond me, letting it move through me.

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

One person accepts healing as a gift and goes running because they enjoy running. The person running beside them thinks that by running, they will be healthy and wonders why they never are. Two people, same action, only one is receiving health from God. The righteous shall live by faith. We are healed by a gift of grace received by faith.

The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the 'present.

Everyone has already received God's greatest gift - the potential to grow.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.