Top 96 Freely Given Quotes
#1. If you don't actively use your knowledge God has freely given you, you will never walk into God's predestined plan for your life. You must seek it and then get to work. It will not fall into your lap.
Latorria Freeman
#2. Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.
Howard W. Hunter
#4. One human life, a human heart freely given
it's the greatest gift anyone can give.
Stacey Jay
#5. I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
Freya Stark
#6. A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades.
Leslie Parrott
#7. There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.
Jean Vanier
#8. That sort doesn't like to admit she's been reduced to stealing food, thought the cook. Poor soul! It's only a few apples. Lord, if you're watching, those apples are freely given. You don't hold them against her soul. (The cook was in the habit of lecturing the Lord, whom she considered a colleague.)
T. Kingfisher
#10. Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
Victor Hugo
#11. Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.
Annie Dillard
#12. Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.
David Malouf
#13. When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.
Harvey MacKay
#14. God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike.
Helen Schucman
#15. Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return
Peter Lerangis
#16. In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Desmond Tutu
#17. How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given? ... No: there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him; a constant looking to Him for grace.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#18. Love should have no boundaries, no limits, and no law. Love should be free, and freely given to whomever it wants.
Cameo Renae
#19. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.
Timothy Snyder
#20. One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!
J.D. Salinger
#21. America was, Wallace now knew, a nation of addicts, unable to see that what looked like love freely given was really need neurotically and chronically unsatisfied.
D.T. Max
#22. Gifts freely given conquer the night...
C.A. Morgan
#23. You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
Anne Lamott
#24. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
Matthew Kelly
#25. It's a gift. (Artemis)
Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#26. Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
John Calvin
#27. God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.
Mark Galli
#28. The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel.
Pope Francis
#29. Everyone spends money freely that is freely given.
B.C. Chase
#30. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.
Jo Coudert
#31. Love is universal and freely given, yet the ego insists that it be owned, that it obey the ego's stern dictates of when, how and where. In this, the ego will forever fail, for it is fighting the wrong battle. Love can never be limited or exist in separation or isolation.
Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
#32. Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
Max Lerner
#33. Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.
Gary Chapman
#34. A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made.
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, in order to know what has been freely given to us by God. 1 Corinthians 2:12
Beth Moore
#36. Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.
Jodi Picoult
#37. What was freely given to me, I freely give.
Lauryn Hill
#38. Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
George S. Clason
#39. Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.
Courtney Milan
#40. Love, when freely given, duplicates and multiplies. Still,
Nathan Hill
#41. Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily
H. Leighton Dickson
#42. Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit
John Calvin
#43. You have nothing to do but to receive the things that are freely given to you of God - the forgiveness, the cleansing, the life, that come from Christ by faith.
Alexander MacLaren
#44. Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
Cameron Dokey
#45. Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.
Napoleon Hill
#46. Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.
Paul Ellis
#47. You can't make someone love you just because you want them to. It has to be freely given or it doesn't mean anything.
S.J. West
#48. Answers that are not freely given aren't really answers at all.
Courtney Cole
#49. To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
Simon Hoggart
#50. The best things in life aren't free ... they're given freely, but you have to work hard to keep them - Shane KP O'Neill
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#51. These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.
William John Wills
#52. The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.
Mark R. Levin
#53. Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,
an illness given by the hand of man!
Victor Hugo
#54. You can buy a person's time and work, but you cannot buy their enthusiasm, effort, and passion. Those are earned, and as such, given freely.
Jeffrey Fry
#55. Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he'll never truly command it. I am your daughter, not your horse, sir." I
Kerri Maniscalco
#56. Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift!
Louisa Edwards
#57. The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.
Saint Augustine
#58. Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back
Kim Stanley Robinson
#59. It's true though, that the impulse to give freely to the world seems to be at the bottom of the well of human intentions where the purest and clearest water arises. To be able to offer back what the world has given you, but shaped a little by your touch - that makes a true life.
John Tarrant
#60. The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.
Emily Susan Rapp
#61. Congratulations,' said Damen. 'You've forced my hand. You have what you want. Delpha, in exchange for your aid in the south. Nothing given freely, nothing done out of feeling, everything coerced, with bloodless planning.' 'Then I have your agreement? Say it.' 'You have my agreement.' 'Good,
C.S. Pacat
#62. These two people who had everything money could buy but the one thing that could be given freely: love.
Justina Chen
#63. Instead, he cleared his throat, removed himself from Avery's hold and tucked himself back inside his slacks, trying to find some control. It was a monumental experience to have finally given your heart away so freely, especially to someone you didn't know. The whole experience unnerved Kane.
Kindle Alexander
#64. There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.
Julianne Donaldson
#65. Time is no friend, it has turned its back and will not help, will not move anything, will not slow things down that are moving. ....... Where it has given hours, days, years, it will not yield moments. Where it has given moments so freely and with abundances, it now gives eternity.
Albert French
#66. A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate.
Mark W. Boyer
#67. Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.
Karina Halle
#68. Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water - freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#70. Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.
Martin Luther
#71. Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you.
Michael Beckwith
#72. Love is not a tallying of favors, it is a limitless supply given freely.
Kristina Meister
#73. Grace is goodness and respect given freely and unconditionally. A sense of divine love and protection bestowed on us when we need strength and renewal. Grace helps us know we are not alone and believe we are cared for and cherished. Grace is a drink of clear, clean water in the desert.
Sue Thoele
#74. God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
Ernest Holmes
#75. Love is ... like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.
Thomas Merton
#76. I saw then how I could be a good Buddhist and a good chef, and serve meat that is given freely, without suffering.
Matthew Johnson
#77. I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.
Sonia Johnson
#78. When you have a good connection with the field of consciousness, you can use your intuition freely and enjoy a continuous feeling of knowing what is best and right to do in a given situation.
Jorgen Bonde Eriksen
#79. Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
Ashley Purdy
#80. True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Suze Orman
#81. I love you Micah. You may not want it. You may not need it. But you'll always have it. It doesn't come with any strings or expectations. It's given freely.
Maya Banks
#82. In truth, what you actually are is God's Love Manifested into being. That's all this God is looking to receive from you, your love given freely from your own heart and in doing so, in that act of freely giving back your love, you come to know who you are.
David Rich
#83. Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.
Robert Southwell
#84. Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain ... those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.
Henry B. Eyring
#85. We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#86. Love has no pride. Love is open, honest, and given freely without bonds or secrets or inhibitions."
Book ~ Embracing My Submission
Jenna Jacob
#87. I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
Frank Murphy
#88. When God in his sheer mercy and without any merit of mine has given me such unspeakable riches, shall I not then freely, joyously, wholeheartedly, unprompted do everything that I know will please him? I will give myself as a sort of Christ to my neighbor as Christ gave himself for me.
Roland H. Bainton
#89. But how to fight with singers, how to win a gift that could only be given freely - those were questions whose answers could not be found.
Orson Scott Card
#90. Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
James Geary
#91. it was a gift to her, and gifts given freely are a bit less likely to turn bad on you. It's
T. Kingfisher
#92. Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.
Rachel Field
#93. IF YOU ARE GIVEN A CHOICE, YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACTED FREELY.
Peter Watts
#94. The one help we all need is given to us freely though the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Having faith in Jesus Christ and In His Atonement means relying completely on Him-trusting in His infinite power, intelligence, and love.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#95. Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.
Max Anders
#96. The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
Heloise
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