Top 86 Quotes About Gifts From God
#1. Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.
Hiroko Sakai
#2. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.
George Bowen
#4. In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul.
Robert Morneau
#5. Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God's] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.
Billy Graham
#6. Experiences are the gifts from God, but we never seek those directly. You and I are to be seeking. You and I are to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then the experiences are the gifts.
Brian Richardson
#7. Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.
Michael Leunig
#8. All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.
C.J. Mahaney
#9. Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
Frederic Bastiat
#10. Brilliant ideas are gifts from God, sent to you in answer to your prayers ... and all you need to do is act upon the ideas, one divinely guided step at a time. If you want to validate if an idea is truly heavensent, ask your angels to send you clear signs.
Doreen Virtue
#11. 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
#12. One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
Criss Jami
#13. Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.
James Martin
#14. Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from God's hand to be responsibly enjoyed within the parameters of his commands.
Randy Alcorn
#15. A good marriage is one of the most precious gifts from God,
Diana Gabaldon
#16. Each day is like a treasure box of gifts from God, just waiting to be opened. Open your gifts with excitement. You will find forgiveness attached to ribbons of joy. You will find love wrapped in sparkling gems.
Joan Clayton
#17. To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#18. Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
Meister Eckhart
#19. Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.
J. Oswald Sanders
#20. Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world. - Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call
Emily P. Freeman
#21. God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
Seneca The Younger
#22. Joseph Smith, and this is not always fully appreciated within the tradition he initiated, did not feel that direct communication from God, gifts of seership, and an open, continuously expanding canon in any way obviated the need for theology.
Terryl L. Givens
#23. Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.
Parker J. Palmer
#24. There is a greatness inherent within you. That greatness comes from God. He has bestowed each of us with unique gifts and talents to be used for kingdom building here on earth.
Gabriella Marigold Lindsay
#25. One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.
Stormie O'martian
#26. We begin from the heart, in humility and faith in the One to whom we speak. That positions us to receive God's goodness and mercy - both are gifts. When prayers come from our hearts, they will touch God's heart. Such prayers can change our lives and affect the issues we are praying about.
Charles Simpson
#27. Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know - mainly because I learned it from books - that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth
Karen Swallow Prior
#28. By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.
John Piper
#29. The more you come to admire God's wisdom and believe in his love and kindness to each of us, the freer you will be from envying those with more faith and stronger gifts and from feeling superior to those what are weaker than you.
Barbara R. Duguid
#30. For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day-and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.
Ken Ham
#31. It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.
Leon Morris
#32. Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil
If I thank'd my God for worldly things.
William Blake
#33. For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God.
John Calvin
#34. Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#35. Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way.
Orson Scott Card
#36. If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt like someone of whom she was fond, an old and future friend of herself, still unspent and up ahead somewhere, like a light that moves.
Lorrie Moore
#37. No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we are, must wait until we ask for them, that we may know whence they come: when in all gifts we find Him, then in Him we shall find all things.
George MacDonald
#38. As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.
Michael Horton
#39. Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#40. God gives gifts to and also of men/women for His purposes in promoting the cause of Christ and His Kingdom".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#41. The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
Francois Fenelon
#42. Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.
Grace Gealey
#43. We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.
Dallin H. Oaks
#44. Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.
Mother Teresa
#45. I often wonder if my imagination is one of God's choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#46. God has from the beginning, placed in us all the necessary gifts, abilities and talents to have success
Sunday Adelaja
#47. There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity,
Justinian I
#48. The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
#49. We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.
Johanna Spyri
#50. I think God puts people in our lives as gifts to us. The children in your class this year, they are some of God's gifts to you. So please treat each one like a gift from God. Every single one.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#51. All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed.
James E. Faust
#52. Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. 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
#54. The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
John Piper
#55. Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.
Mark Hopkins
#56. And he understood then what he never did. Why he called Dusty "Angel." Because with her gifts given to her straight from God, that was precisely what she was.
Kristen Ashley
#57. Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.
Martin Luther
#58. 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
#59. If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.
Steven Tyler
#60. Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
Yasmin Mogahed
#61. You know you have found your life mission when you say, I dare you to try and take this away from me.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. 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
#63. I really feel like sometimes I'll write these songs, and I'll just think, 'You know that couldn't have come from me alone.' I believe that God inspires us. I believe that He gives us gifts and talents, and it's up to us to develop them and choose what we do with them.
Lindsey Stirling
#65. Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)
Neena Verma
#66. Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.
Craig S. Keener
#67. Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.
Carol Leifer
#68. Cyrus's momma thinks I'm a gift from God. I didn't have the heart to tell her if I was then God was guilty of handing out gag gifts, Joyce said.
Carolyn Brown
#70. 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
#71. I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
Margaret Keane
#72. Meeting him was a miracle. He was a precious gift sent from God from heaven above!
Lily Amis
#73. 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
#74. Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It's God's priceless gift to you.
Christian Hunt
#75. Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.
Siri Mitchell
#76. All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God ... for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.
Amari Cooper
#77. Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!
Cheyenne Mitchell
#78. Because sometimes .. god gifts are not extra money , properties , or even beauty ... sometimes it's just a remembrance from an old friend when you really need it.
and that's just priceless !
Anonymous
#79. All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#80. All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
Hannah More
#81. God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.
Fulton J. Sheen
#82. God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.
John Mark Reynolds
#83. Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
Martin Luther
#84. The pursuit of perfection keeps us from joy, love, peace, hope, and so many of the other gifts God intends for us.
Holley Gerth
#85. Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.
Ludwig Von Mises
#86. I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition.
C.S. Lewis