Gifts And Giving Quotes

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance.

He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

The greatest gift you can give to someone is your time. Because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.

Nature never gives everything at once.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God.

Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

There are two gifts we should give our children, one is roots and the other is wings

Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

It is in community that we come to see God in the other.

It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give to another person, he believed in me.

A truly submissive woman is to be treasured, cherished and protected for it is only she who can give a man the gift of dominance.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.

It is not possible to heal people and collect money.

That gift is not for sale. When it is time to heal, it is time to give what God has given us.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love.

As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.