Quotes about Gifts

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

We must realize that the ministries and gifts of the Spirit are for everyday life, not just meetings.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

Your greatest fulfillment in life will come when you discover your unique gifts and abilities and use them to edify others and glorify the LORD.

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

My God has bestowed upon me many gifts, and for these I will remember to be grateful. Too many times I have offered up the prayers of a beggar, always asking for more and forgetting to give thanks.

There are those who would say 'Let us be patient. Let us sit and wait upon the Almighty.' I say tot hem, "Get up! The Almighty is waiting on you!' Make no mistake, the Lord God instructs us; He leads us and inspires us, but He expects us to do something with the gifts we've been given. It is a choice that too few make.

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .