Top 67 Quotes About Spiritual Gifts
#1. Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.
Rick Warren
#2. Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.
David A. Bednar
#3. This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles us. Mary remains ever the path that leads to Christ. Every encounter with her can only result in an encounter with Christ himself
Pope Paul VI
#4. Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#5. 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
#6. All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#7. Throughout our lives, God's grace bestows temporal blessings and spiritual gifts that magnify our abilities and enrich our lives. His grace refines us. His grace helps us become our best selves.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#8. 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
#9. There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you.
Russell Simmons
#10. People who continue in blatant sin whilst exercising spiritual gifts create this ever widening gulf in their personality which results in spiritual failure, emotional collapse, sometimes mental breakdown, physical illness, relational difficulties and quite often a complete moral lapse.
Graham Cooke
#11. Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#12. You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.
David Jeremiah
#13. Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.
Roger Mahony
#14. As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
Charles Stanley
#15. If you assign ten new believers the task of studying the Bible to find God's heart for this generation, not one of them would conclude that spiritual gifts are not for today. You have to be taught that stuff!
Bill Johnson
#16. Many of us who affirm and practice spiritual gifts would feel more comfortable among anticharismatics who are at least grounded in Scripture than among such flaky charismatics.
Craig S. Keener
#17. I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.
Doreen Virtue
#18. God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.
J. Oswald Sanders
#19. If evangelizing, sharing Christ's spiritual gifts, is confused with proselytizing, then clarity of purpose and action will be resented. Evangelizing, however, calls the evangelizer to conversion while he or she is telling others who Christ is.
Francis George
#20. Some people are only "believers" because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather than Christian servants, who are always willing to give.
Lisa Bedrick
#21. Spiritual gifts are not walls to protect the indwelling furnace of sin.
Martin
#22. By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Fredrik Bajer
#23. 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
#24. Gifts are things we do, but spiritual fruit or graces are things we are
Timothy J. Keller
#25. When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.
Sathya Sai Baba
#26. True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.
Thomas Merton
#27. Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina to survive the pain. However, we often are given gifts that tell us that we are not alone and that we can withstand the journey.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#28. It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)
Julia Cameron
#30. Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift
Sunday Adelaja
#31. You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.
Watchman Nee
#33. 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
#34. God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
Watchman Nee
#35. This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
John Ortberg
#36. If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#37. Saint Thomas Aquinas explains how, with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, a person's whole spiritual being becomes responsive to God's light, not only the light of knowledge but also the inspiration of love. I have prayed for the gifts of the Holy Spirit since my youth and I continue to do so.
Pope John Paul II
#38. God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#39. The new female is not limited in any way. She yearns to give the gifts she was born to give, and she does what is necessary to give them. Where her heart leads, she goes. No one defines her role for her. She is on a spiritual journey. Authentic Power is her destination.
Gary Zukav
#40. All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.
Lauren Artress
#41. 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
#44. Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity.
Craig S. Keener
#45. Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.
Brother Yun
#46. God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike.
Helen Schucman
#47. May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.
Billy Graham
#48. Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
Laozi
#49. Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.
Craig S. Keener
#50. Potentially the seed has a mighty tree within it. The four aspects of our nature (the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual) are like seeds. They have the potential to grow into powerful gifts.
Judie Bopp
#51. There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
Marta Mrotek
#52. The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.
Watchman Nee
#53. This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
Johann Arndt
#54. I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.
Ram Dass
#55. Anna's spiritual formation was relegated to cultural expressions of faith: the Christmas Baby Jesus and his gifts, the Easter risen Christ and his chocolate bunnies, and a copy of The Thorn Birds pulled from her mother's bookshelf.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#56. I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Peabo Bryson
#57. We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.
Timothy Keller
#59. ...to lead an individual along a spiritual path consonant with the person's gifts and personality...[The Jesuit training of novitiates and lay students]
John W. O'Malley
#60. How little we understand
of the gifts we have been given
or the shape of the path
we took to reach our salvation.
Harley King
#61. An "apostle" [is] one who is called and sent by Christ to have the spiritual authority, character, gifts and abilities to successfully reach and establish people in Kingdom truth and order, especially through founding and overseeing local churches.
David Cannistraci
#62. 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
#63. I learned a valuable spiritual lesson in my return to wrestling: God does not give us gifts that He does not intend for us to use.
Shawn Michaels
#64. In the New Testament, we don't find our gift through self-examination and introspection and then find ways to express it. Instead, we love one another, serve one another, help one another, and in so doing we see how God has equipped us to do so.
Russell D. Moore
#66. Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.
James Martin
#67. Man has to pick up his functions as he goes along.
E. M. Forster
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