Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]
His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.
Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it’s one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.
As much as salvation is a free gift, the truth is that keeping salvation comes with a price; you must live by God's law through Jesus Christ.
The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.
But I wasn't done," she pouted, no longer hungry for anything but him. "Yes, you were." "Yes, sir." "Lay down on your back." "Very yes, sir.
Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and complex in their structures as the branch is, only much more symmetrical. Flowers.
It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.
But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness at the heart of it that-I knew-made her sad.
Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.
My Dearest Julianne, Thank you for your immeasurable gift. The only thing I have of value is my heart. It’s yours, Gabriel.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
But I still have no cash flow. I need a job, or the gift of prophecy and a plane ticket to Las Vegas.
truth is a friend that asks for loyalty and acceptance then it enters our hearts dissolving the boundaries freeing us from lonliness
I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.
It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
This Christmas... Say a prayer for those in need. Be a friend to those in despair. Give all...the gift of peace!
We all have special gifts, talents that can help brighten humanity each day ✌️
In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.
