Top 56 Quotes About Gifts Of Time
#1. Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken
#2. Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
Maeve Binchy
#3. Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
Meister Eckhart
#4. God has plucked you out of eternity, positioned you in time, and given you gifts and talents to serve him in this generation. Your race is now. This is your time in history.
Christine Caine
#5. You can simply remember that behavioral expressions of love can be divided into physical touch, quality time, gifts, acts of service, and words of affirmation.
Gary Chapman
#6. It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.
Sela Ward
#7. 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
#8. We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship.
Russell Eric Dobda
#9. Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.
Alma Katsu
#10. Every child has a special way of perceiving love. There are five ways children (indeed, all people) speak and understand emotional love. They are physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, and acts of service.
Gary Chapman
#11. One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.'-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup
Jamie Malanowski
#12. The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.
Ann Voskamp
#13. Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
Jared Polis
#14. The journey comes with baggage, yes. And heartbreak. But there are also many gifts. In a sense, we're all cobblers. We're all a bit like Brother Joseph, piecing together our faith, one shard of broken glass at a time.
Rachel Held Evans
#15. Victor watched them working together flawlessly, something his brothers had done from the time most of them were young. That ability to seamlessly blend their talents had allowed them to survive the insanity they'd grown up in. The gifts each of them had always astonished him.
Christine Feehan
#16. The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
Robin S. Sharma
#17. I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
John Marshall
#18. Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.
James Bryce
#19. He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge; and that may come in time.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#20. Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#21. Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts.
Margaret Stohl
#23. Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time ... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.
Alexandra Stoddard
#24. Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.
Bryant McGill
#25. I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it ... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#26. Evaluate every aspect of your life, and ask yourself, Is there more I could be surrendering to God (time, money, gifts)?
Jarrid Wilson
#27. THE 5 LOVE LANGUAGES Words of Affirmation Quality Time Receiving Gifts Acts of Service Physical Touch
Gary Chapman
#28. Sometimes you have to let go of a career you love, a beloved home, or a loved one. Take time to grieve a loss of this nature. If you find yourself disoriented, consider surrounding yourself with people who see your strengths, goodness, gifts, and talents. They will help you find your way.
Laura Staley
#29. 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
#30. When you are confident that you are the Father's treasured possession, you are also confident that his loving care will continue forever. Building warehouses is a waste of time and space. His gifts to you become things you want to give him back in gratitude. Then he gives you even more.
Edward T. Welch
#31. The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and thought the gifts brought them a lucky year.
P.H. Ditchfield
#32. The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives ...
Kimberly Hahn
#33. For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard
#34. We all have a one or more gifts inside of us, but a lot of the time we're too busy to unwrap that gift
Steven Aitchison
#35. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
Yousuf Karsh
#36. The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now.
Lynn Thomson
#37. five different love languages: quality time, the giving of gifts, acts of service, physical touch, or words of encouragement.
Kate Kennedy
#38. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.
Joyce Meyer
#39. Each of us must use the gifts that we have, in the time that we have, in the place that we are. You taught me that. No more is required of us. And no less.
Virginia Kantra
#40. Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri Hustvedt
#41. At this time of Christmas, this season when gifts are given, let us not forget that God gave His Son, and His Son gave His life, that each of us might have the gift of eternal life.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#43. The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.
Nicky Gumbel
#44. Productivity is effectively stewarding your gifts, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God.
Tim Challies
#45. I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
Tommy Hilfiger
#46. With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income.
Susan Sarandon
#47. Ingredients for a terrific Christmas: Christ. Love for one another. Forgiveness. Generosity. Time. Music. Children's laughter. Reminising with loved ones. Remembering those who are alone. The making of new memories.
Toni Sorenson
#48. It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enought, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.
Unknown Author 909
#49. God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.
Francois Fenelon
#50. Sometimes we spend way too much time questioning the gifts we're given instead of being thankful for them.
Elisabeth Naughton
#51. Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.
Nouman Ali Khan
#52. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.
Steve Goodier
#53. Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love.
Gary Chapman
#54. You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#55. Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.
Charles Frazier
#56. Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
Stephanie S. Tolan