Good Gifts Quotes

#1. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.

Israelmore Ayivor

#2. Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. 13If you then, w who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father x give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!

Anonymous

#4. The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

#5. God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.

John Paul Jackson

#6. We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God ... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

Ann Voskamp

#7. When I intentionally thank God for the good gifts that come from being his child, I find it almost impossible to maintain my sour disposition.

Lori Hatcher

#8. Only because the message concerning Jesus Christ must still go forth and find believers, and because our task is not yet perfected, does God in His patience continue to sustain us with His good gifts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#10. I used to always worry about money and where it would come from, but now I know that God is the supplier and the giver of good gifts.

Jean Coleman

#11. When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

John Webster

#12. Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

King James I

#13. Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.

John Owen

#14. What we moderns call "addictions" God calls "idols," and all of God's good gifts are meant to raise our eyes in thanksgiving to our benevolent heavenly Father, not to fix our eyes on the gifts themselves.

Michael S. Horton

#15. Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. Well," Nicholas said seriously, "I think that all good gifts come ultimately from God. It wouldn't do for the messenger to take credit for his master's work.

Glenn Beck

#17. At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

Padgett Powell

#18. For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

Pearl S. Buck

#19. Precious lessons that Jesus has to teach us this day. We seek God's gifts: God wants to give us HIMSELF first. We think of prayer as the power to draw down good gifts from heaven; Jesus as the means to draw ourselves up to God.

Andrew Murray

#20. Don't whale it too much a' Lord's days, men; but don't miss a fair chance either, that's rejecting Heaven's good gifts.

Herman Melville

#21. If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

Sheila Walsh

#22. Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

A.B. Simpson

#23. The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others. No

John Calvin

#24. Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

Paul Gauguin

#25. You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#26. Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

Loretta Young

#27. The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

Wendell Berry

#28. Many people ask: "Why does a God of love allow bad things to happen?" Few people think to ask, "Why does God continually give good gifts to people who don't thank him or care about him?

Deb Brammer

#29. 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

#30. I will never be a stupid girl ... and neither should you. Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before ... it's also much easier
and much more fun. A good education is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give yourself.

Pink

#31. It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

Anne O'Brien

#32. Happy Holidays

Is it not this day to smile?
Is it yet a time to give?
Is this friend as old as good?
Is my family so well?

Santa is just on his way,
Bringing gifts and love tonight,
Have a prosperous New Year!
And a happy day to last!

J.M.K. Walkow

#33. What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.

Thomas A Kempis

#34. There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

Joseph Addison

#35. Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.

Roy Ayers

#36. One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others.

Michael Josephson

#37. You have a contribution to make and unique gifts to offer. It's time to stop listening to the voices that tells you that you're not good enough, won't make it, or don't have anything to offer.

Lynn A. Robinson

#38. The smallest, earliest gifts forever alter your trajectory for doing good. This is what I mean by the compound interest of altruism. Start early to maximize the compound interest in your efforts.

Biz Stone

#39. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

B.F. Skinner

#40. For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

Adam Lindsay Gordon

#41. And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?

Mark Nepo

#42. Many of us learned to repress our creativity. We were told it was secondary to more important skills. The good news is that many of us have untapped gifts just waiting to be expressed. You owe it to yourself to uncover and express your gifts

Renae A. Sauter

#43. I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

Ryan Reynolds

#44. 7. Do you ask me what this real good is, and whence it derives? I will tell you: it comes from a good conscience, from honourable purposes, from right actions, from contempt of the gifts of chance, from an even and calm way of living which treads but one path. For

Seneca.

#45. But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

William Cowper

#46. If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.

Claire Cook

#47. I mean gifts and trips and clothing and all sorts of things, and now he [Tim Kaine] is running for vice president. I don't get what's going on here. He was not a good choice for her.

Donald Trump

#48. What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.

Paul Rankin

#49. We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Marilyn Hacker

#50. All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

G.K. Chesterton

#51. Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God's good will toward us in all his gifts.

John Piper

#52. Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Sophocles

#53. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

Oren Arnold

#54. So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Homer

#55. A good marriage is one of the most precious gifts from God,

Diana Gabaldon

#56. For the gifts of Nature belong to good and evil alike; but the proper gift of the elect is grace - that is, love - and they who bear the mark thereof are held worthy of everlasting life.

Thomas A Kempis

#57. But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

John Calvin

#58. A stable weather is a gift, you can enjoy the pink life; a stormy weather is a gift, you can learn the real life! Both the good and the bad are gifts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. The best gifts anyone can give to themselves are good health habits.

Ellen J. Barrier

#60. The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

Stephen Neal

#61. I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

Alex Ebert

#62. Evil's greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator who lavished gifts on the world.

Philip Yancey

#63. We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

Ray Bradbury

#64. To live in sync with who we truly are means to recognize that we are dependent on God for our very breath and are graced with many good things; it means to be grateful to the giver and attentive to the purpose for which the gifts are given.

Miroslav Volf

#65. As you celebrate your special day I hope you are showered with priceless gifts of love, thoughtfulness, friendships, family, laughter and good times. These are just a few simple presents that money can't buy and that you absolutely deserve! Happy Birthday!

Carlos Wallace

#66. Theano: Always expecting the worst, you are.

Danae: If you expect terrible things, then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

Adele Geras

#67. You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

Sanhita Baruah

#68. There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something.

Steve Maraboli

#69. When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#70. Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Alethea Kontis

#71. After the great hurt and defeat in your life will come your great gifts that will bring you joy. Like the rainbow after the storm telling you ... now go and enjoy your life! For In everything in this life ... God is always good.

Timothy Pina

#72. Everyone knows how to smile. Its one of the greatest gifts God has given us. A smile makes people feel good, and people look so beautiful when they smile.

Joyce Meyer

#73. One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!

C. JoyBell C.

#74. I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.

Julian Casablancas

#75. Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning ... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

Malaika Arora Khan

#76. Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.

Michael Cunningham

#77. Productivity is effectively stewarding your gifts, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God.

Tim Challies

#78. Too often we profess God but look to everything else to function as him. Even perfectly good things. Things that in and of themselves are pure and right and gifts from God but have become a problem simply because of the placement they have in our lives.

Kelly Minter

#79. The monkeys ignored him completely as they discussed wind currents and angle of approach, and even the Lion seemed to have forgotten he was there. He might as well be back in that field tied to a post for all the good the Wizard's gifts were doing him.

Danielle Paige

#80. Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

Jane Kenyon

#81. My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

Michael Sheen

#82. But every one of these qualities are gifts of my God: I did not give them to myself. They are good qualities, and their totality is my self. Therefore he who made me is good, and he is my good, and I exult to him, for all the good things that I was even as a boy.

Augustine Of Hippo

#83. Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task ... But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

Robert McKee

#84. I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

Pierce Brosnan

#85. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Ben Carson

#86. I always get asked for suggestions on what to get food-lover friends. While there are many gifts out there that a foodie would love, it's always good to do some research beforehand so you know you're getting a gift that will last.

Marcus Samuelsson

#87. Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#88. we all have gifts and talents and passions that are meant to meet the needs of others. What good does it do if we sit on those, never offering a helping hand where it's needed? Especially if we're able or have the resources to help.

Diane Moody

#89. Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate ... for any social system to remain in balance.

Margaret Atwood

#90. I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#91. When we look at what we have to offer - our skills, gifts, and desires - before asking what is needed of us, we are putting the cart before the horse, or the gifts before the call. The question a disciple must first ask is not, "What am I good at?" but rather, "What is required of me?

Jeff Goins

#92. My path was to be an actor and it's been very good to me in life. It's broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

Nicole Kidman

#93. You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

#94. It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

Alison Croggon

#95. I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.

Zig Ziglar

#96. The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Euripides

#97. On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

John Hoeven

#98. Be grateful for everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. Our entire life is a precious gift. It's all part of our path.

Dawn Gluskin

#99. He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was.

Bill Clinton

#100. The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

Wendell Berry