gift quotes

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

I just feel that ‚The Color Purple,‘ which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.