“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian
Source: Prayer
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian
Source: Prayer
“Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.”
T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop
Source: Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan For Your Life
“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)
“What you have is all His Gift to you. What you do with what you have is your Gift to Him …”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: What you have is His gift to you; what you do with what you have is your gift to Him.
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.
Brother Yun (1958) Chinese christian house church leader
Source: The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American motivational speaker
