Quotes of: Gifts Keyword

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace--'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to pleasure—” “Every nook and cranny,” Marietta interrupted dryly and Gabrielle tipped her head back with a throaty ...

The Lover's Gift Regained

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.

Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2

Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. ...

Orthodoxy

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

The Wolf Gift

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is end...

This Boy's Life

Too many persons get totally lost in the gifts that God has given us. Their wild enthusiasm for heavenly things often blinds them to the reality of God Himself. All the gifts were designed only to draw us closer to God. Frequently, they become anothe...

L.F.Linnenkamp

While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.

One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

Start with a simple request, making it the refrain of your day: 'God, open the eyes of my heart.' This journey must be Spirit-led, every day.

One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

As long as a man has, he must give. And when he has nothing more, he is free. This freedom is far nobler than the former giving, for he no longer gives in accident but in essence, and he no longer gives one gift, but all gifts, and he no longer gives...

John Tauler

McCoy: [handing Kirk a birthday gift, after Kirk hands him the Romulan ale] Now you open this one. Kirk: [taking gift] I'm almost afraid to. What is it, Klingon aphrodisiacs? McCoy: No. More antiques for your collection.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

Patricia Brooks

Must I accept the barren Gift? -learn death, and lose my Mastery? Then let them know whose blood and breath will take the Gift and set them free: whose is the voice and whose the mind to set at naught the well-sung Game- when finned Finality arrives ...

Deep Wizardry

Your anger is a gift.

Zack de la Rocha

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

George Kotsiopoulos

Songwriting is my gift from God.

Smokey Robinson

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Tommy Shaw