“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”
Arun Shourie - The World of Fatwas Or The Sharia in Action (2012, Harper Collins)
Volume 1, p. 191
The Prophets (1962)
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
Source: Prayer
This is actually from an essay "On Government No. I" that appeared in Franklin's paper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, on 1 April 1736. The author was John Webbe. He wrote about the privileges enjoyed under British rule,
:Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
Misattributed
“People like him think that they are god's gift to the world. What's worse, they are.”
Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 25
“He just walked away like he was God's gift to the world.”
Choreographer Shane Sparks on Danny Tidwell's audition for So You Think You Can Dance
"Vegas Callbacks". So You Think You Can Dance. June 6, 2007. No. 4, season 3.
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“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
“The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.”
Quoted in Women are the Best Warmakers, Raymond Coffey, The Day, New London, Connecticut, 1982-07-08 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6RIhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P3UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5075,1148166&dq=the-atomic-bomb-is-a-marvelous-gift&hl=en,
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
