Top 69 Gift Giver Quotes
#2. The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it.
Tim Kaine
#3. I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
John Legend
#4. If you are to become an effective gift giver, you may have to change your attitude about money.
Gary Chapman
#5. True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
Gautama Buddha
#6. God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
Martin Luther
#7. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Lewis Hyde
#8. It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.
Michael Sandel
#9. God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
Charles Stanley
#10. Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
Peter Kreeft
#11. In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.
Kevin Focke
#12. The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.
Sathya Sai Baba
#13. If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
John Piper
#14. We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet ...
Henry B. Eyring
#15. The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
Laura Huxley
#18. If my gift has a giver other than indifferent Nature and comes with a purpose, then the angel in charge of the Odd Thomas account must be operating on a shoestring budget.
Dean Koontz
#19. It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
Saint Augustine
#20. Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
Sondra Kraak
#23. A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas A Kempis
#25. Plant the trees just for beauty,
If flowers bloom or fruits ripen,
Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Gratitude isn't a gift to the receiver, it's a gift to the giver.
Kim Holden
#27. James Russell Lowell wrote: It's not what we give but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of himself of his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
John Wooden
#28. Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
Joyce Meyer
#30. Every giver deserves a thank you for a big and small gift because giving is much more beyond friendship and relationship.
Euginia Herlihy
#31. Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift:
it is so nearly what would please me
I cannot but perfect it
Laura Riding Jackson
#32. The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.
Roman Payne
#33. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Martin Luther
#34. Gifts are not things that you earn or deserve they are a way for the giver to show their appreciation for you and Daren, you are a part of my family
Chelsea Fine
#36. Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted
Allen Ginsberg
#37. 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
#38. That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.
Paul Magrs
#39. Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.
Thomas S. Monson
#41. For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
William Shakespeare
#42. Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it.
Nora Roberts
#43. The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
Kathryn Jean Lopez
#46. When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
Cate Blanchett
#47. It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.
Victor L. Brown
#48. A gift
its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you
may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#49. Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Seeking rest is like seeking the gift rather than the Giver; you can't receive the gift without first finding the Giver.
Jenari Skye
#51. The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#52. Blessing is essentially the transformative experience of knowing and honoring God as the Giver; it means valuing the steady flow that sustains the world even above the gift of life that each of us receives and is in time constrained to relinquish.
Ellen F. Davis
#54. Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
Thomas A Kempis
#55. It's a very brave thing for anyone to do, offering love to another person. We make ourselves so vulnerable when we do it, don't we? We give that other person such power to hurt us and to rob us of our dignity. No one should ever belittle that gift, nor the giver.
Lynn Hall
#56. When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.
Lois Lowry
#57. He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas A Kempis
#58. Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
Paul David Tripp
#59. A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
John Stott
#60. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.
Nicholas Sparks
#62. The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.
Ovid
#63. To count upon his virtue and use it as an instrument of torture, to practice blackmail with the victim's generosity as sole means of extortion, to accept the gift of a man's good will and turn it into a tool for the giver's destruction.
Ayn Rand
#64. The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail
Walt Whitman
#65. Often those who claim that the Lord has given them gifts place God in a secondary role while they display the gift as if it were their very own. This is a very bad mistake. the gift can never be greater than the giver.
Samuel Ngewa
#66. God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
Saint Ignatius
#67. A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Seneca.
#68. When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me.
Sathya Sai Baba
#69. The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift.
Frederick Victor Grey Wymark
