Quotes about Gift

She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.

Music is a gift. We make it to give it away.

And just as we desperately need it from Jesus, there are people who, whether they know it or not, need that gift from us.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... the poet brings his poem... the farmer, corn... the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing, for it restores society in so far to its primary basis, when a man's biography is conveyed in his gift... But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Listening is a gift of spiritual significance that you can learn to give to others. When you listen, you give one a sense of importance, hope and love that he or she may not receive any other way. Through listening, we nurture and validate the feelings one has, especially when he or she experiences difficulties in life.

The entire cosmos is meant to serve as a sacrament: a material gift from God in and through which we enter into the joy of his heavenly presence.

God loves us, not such as we are by our merit, but such as we will be by his own gift.

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

What you are is god's gift to you, What you make of yourself is your gift to god.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.