Quotes about Gift

The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

The world has been wrong about you. They've hated your glory—just as the Evil One hates the glory of God. But we need your gift. Come forth.

The most essential gift you have to give is yourself.

Receive it for the gift it is! Pause, and let the beauty minister to you. I receive this into my soul. Too often we just notice and go on, like a pedestrian who steps over a hundred-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. Stop and pick it up! In these moments you open yourself and receive the beauty, the gift, the grace—receive it into your being. Let it bring to you God's love, his tenderness, his rich goodness.

To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

Whoever, therefore, hath this ability to know the mysteries of the gospel, he hath it by free gift or donation from God. He hath received it, and may not boast as if it were from himself, and that he had not received it, as the apostle speaks, 1 Cor. iv.

At Christmas, we remember God's gift to us by giving gifts to each other.