Quotes about Gift

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

EVERYTHING given in this life is given as a gift. When it's gone, it's a good memory to be grateful for. It was never really yours.

When God wants to send you a gift, he wraps it up in a problem. The bigger the gift that God wants to send you, the bigger the problem he wraps it up in.

In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.

The confession of the church touching Jesus Christ can never be a knowledge such that, with it, the church can elevate itself above the world. It is precisely within the church that people will have to remind themselves that this knowledge is a gift and a miracle which did not arise out of flesh and blood.

God ... is hidden from corrupt eyes, from the proud and disdainful, but revealed to those who in confession of sin and receptive faith are open to His grace. Salvation is preached in Christ: it is not necessary for one to travel a long way to overcome its hiddenness: he should simply accept this gift in faith.

One can do many external deeds of love and still hold back the really precious gift, the inner self. This gift can be given only through communication.

The best gift you can give your spouse is to fear the God who made him or her. That's a gift that truly keeps on giving.

Love the giver more than the gift.

A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man.