Quotes about gift
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“Forgetfulness, A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“The identity integrity and gift to dream again people saw and learn from my life especially as a person living with disability NOW.”

Adenike Oyetunde (1986) Nigerian founder of amputees united

Source: https://www.hernetwork.com.q-a-adenikeoyetunde Adenike Oyetunde on question and answer section at Her Network.

Personality, People, Learning, Dreams

“Music is a gift from heaven.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica è un dono del cielo.
Source: prevale.net

Music

“Special, authentic and rare people are made of love: they have the gift of knowing how to conquer and warm the heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Le persone speciali, autentiche e rare sono fatte d'amore: hanno il dono di saper conquistare e scaldare il cuore.
Source: prevale.net

People, Heart, Love

“During the festival we appreciate how big is God´s gift to Asmat people. They can preserve their identity through their woodcarvings. Their carving is art that reflects fundamental beliefs passed down from generation to generation.”

Aloysius Murwito (1950) Indonesian catholic priest

Source: Church Continues To Preserve Asmat Culture Through Art Festival https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2006/10/30/church-continues-to-preserve-asmat-culture-through-art-festival&post_id=28455 (6 October 2006)

God, People, Art

“Above all, I believe sports have given me the God´s gift of ease to relate to people. It is very easy for me to be with people of any age, social condition or circumstance. Sports helps you not to have barriers. This has helped me a lot in the priesthood. In the second place, I would say that in sports, one works as a team. One person doesn't win, the whole team does. Moreover, I have played basketball especially. This also leads one to see the need to be organized. Each one has to give his best. The leader is not the one who carries a plan forward. He is the one who creates conditions in such a way that each one can give the best of himself. He is not the one in front carrying the flag. This is also very important in the priesthood and the episcopate. In the third place, as in sports, it is very important to know how to struggle. Life, for a man who wants to be loyal in the Church today, is a real struggle. Today we cannot say that the Church is synonymous with success — on the contrary.”

Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (1943) Catholic cardinal

Source: From Basketball Player to Cardinal https://zenit.org/2001/02/27/from-basketball-player-to-cardinal/ (27 February 2001)

Personality, Life, Sport, God

“Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.

Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive...”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Source: Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

Hurt, Love, Time

“Many have a way with words. They label themselves seers but they will not see. Many have the gift of tongue but nothing to say. Do not listen to them. Many who have words and tongue have no ear, they cannot listen and they will not hear.”

Gloria E. Anzaldúa Speaking in Tongues

"Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers" (1981)
Source: in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, p. 171

Way

“A disturbed or uneasy conscience is a gift from God. Rejoice when that happens, rather than being offended, and you will discover one of the best ways by which you can grow in holiness of life. You become free of the very sin the Lord Jesus is presenting to you.”

Paul Donoghue (1949) Roman Catholic bishop

A ‘pricked’ conscience https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/features/church-talk/church-talk-a-pricked-conscience/ (15 October 2021)

God, Way, Life

“I'd like to think when life is done
That I had filled a needed post,
That here and there I'd paid my fare
With more than idle talk and boast;
That I had taken gifts divine,
The breath of life and manhood fine,
And tried to use them now and then
In service for my fellow men.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: The Path to Home (1919), p.36 - Compensation, stanza 1.

Thinking, Life, Men

“Oh, youth, go forth and do!
You, too, to fame may rise;
You can be strong and wise.
Stand up to life and play the man —
You can if you'll but think you can;
The great were once as you.
You envy them their proud success?
'Twas won with gifts that you possess.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: All That Matters (1922), p.93 - To a Young Man, final stanza.

Strong, Youth, Success, Envy

“The idea of schooling free men in anything would have revolted Athenians. Forced training was for slaves. Among free men, learning was self-discipline, not the gift of experts.”

John Taylor Gatto book The Underground History of American Education

Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (2001), p. 62

School, Learning, Men, Training

“Catholic doctrine strongly opposes abortion since man was made by God in His image, and blessed him above all other creature. Human life is the Father's most precious gift, valued and full of dignity.”

Michael Michai Kitbunchu (1929) Catholic cardinal

Source: Catholics and Buddhists together against the legalisation of abortion https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Catholics-and-Buddhists-together-against-the-legalisation-of-abortion-7620.html (30 October 2006)

God, Life

“He never guessed that being kind
Depends upon the heart and mind
And not upon the purse at all;
That poor men's gifts, however small,
Make light some weary traveler's load
And smooth for him his troubled road.
He never knew or understood
The fellowship of doing good.
Because he had not much to spare
He thought it vain to give his share.Yet many passed him, day by day,
He might have helped along the way.
He fancied kindness something which
Belongs entirely to the rich.
And so he lived and toiled for gold,
Unsympathetic, harsh and cold,
Intending all the time to share
The burdens that his brothers bear
When he possessed great wealth, and he
Could well afford a friend to be.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: The Path to Home (1919), p.130 - Lost Opportunities, stanzas 2 and 3.

Dependency, Wealth, Men, Light

“Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. God can give the end without any means at all; but you have no reason to think He will. Therefore constantly and carefully use all those means which He has appointed to be the ordinary channels of His grace. Use every means which either reason or Scripture recommends, as conducive (through the free love of God in Christ) either to the obtaining or increasing any of the gifts of God. Thus expect a daily growth in that pure and holy religion which the world always did, and always will, call “enthusiasm;” but which, to all who are saved from real enthusiasm, from merely nominal Christianity, is “the wisdom of God, and the power of God;” the glorious image of the Most High; “righteousness and peace;” a “fountain of living water, springing up into everlasting life!””

John Wesley book Sermons on Several Occasions

1770s, Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)
Source: Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"

Imagination, Spring, Thinking, Love

“I believe that diversity should be a mutual gift, enriching interpersonal and social relationships, opening minds and hearts to those who are different. Yet if we place too much emphasis on what distinguishes us, then peculiarities and nationalisms inevitably resurface, with the consequence that differences become obstacles or, even worse, walls. A Christian, the word itself indicates, even before belonging to a nation, belongs to Christ, who gave his life for us.”

Luciano Suriani (1957) Vatican archbishop and diplomat

Source: Archbishop Luciano Suriani: History Calls Us To Overcome Divisions https://cordmagazine.com/interview/archbishop-luciano-suriani-history-calls-us-to-overcome-divisions/ (31 August 2020)

Heart, Christ, Life

“We are all at one stage or another of being unfinished. We can be born with deficiencies, or incur disabilities, some of which last through life. In fact, we are never finished while death is still in front of us. When there is something that cannot be resolved or fulfilled within our present span of life, it helps to remember that our life was not something we had a right to in the first place; it is simply gift. And our present life is not the whole of it.”

Peter Cullinane (1936) Catholic bishop

Unmoored https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/08/31/unmoored/ (August 31, 2021)

Help, Life, Death

“Life is a gift box full of hardships and struggles”

Attiah

Life, Box

“I do not advocate neglecting your parents: honour and succour them, especially in their old age, but don’t stay at home and do housework when you long, body and soul, to fly to the uttermost ends of the earth, there to find your mission in life and your gift to the world.”

Stella Wolfe Murray (1886–1935) British journalist and writer

Quoted in MILLWARD, L. (2007). Women in British Imperial Airspace: 1922-1937 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt819g2. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Home, Soul, Age, Flying

“Priesthood still is the most marvelous gift and mystery – there is no end to the wonder of it; it's a joyful life.”

John Joseph Gerry (1927–2017) Australian priest

Holy Spirit takes care of early ‘wobbly knees’ https://catholicleader.com.au/news/holy-spirit-takes-care-of-early-wobbly-knees/ (9 July 2015)

Life

“It has taken since time immemorial for us to organize ourselves, biologically and socially, into the functional hierarchies that both specify our perceptions and actions, and define our interactions with the natural and social world. Profound gratitude for that gift is the only proper response.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 34

World, Time, Gratitude, Nature

“There are different cultures, different ways of thinking, different ways of living the faith and of evangelizing, but we wish to love each other as brothers and sisters, respecting our legitimate differences, and valuing each other as gifts for the Church.”

Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel (1940) Mexican bishop

Celibacy is precious gift that not everyone understands, says Mexican bishop https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259/celibacy-is-precious-gift-that-not-everyone-understands-says-mexican-bishop (25 November 2003)

Way, Faith, Thinking, Love

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”

Max Stirner (1806–1856) German philosopher

Attributed in Forbes Vol 38 Iss. 2 (1936) p. 18, and in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 275

Freedom

“I am endowed by shame's vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame.”

Annie Ernaux book Mémoire de fille

Quoted in German #MeToo, ed. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson (Boydell & Brewer, 2022), p. 31
A Girl's Story (2016)

Memory

“Life, which has gifted us with so much valuable and beautiful, so much created and possible, is unquestionably deserving of reverence and service.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Life, Beauty

“Burns's gifts, expressed in conversation, are the theme of all that ever heard him. All kinds of gifts: from the gracefulest utterances of courtesy, to the highest fire of passionate speech; loud floods of mirth, soft wailings of affection, laconic emphasis, clear piercing insight; all was in him.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

Passion

“By three things man standeth in this life; by which three God is worshipped, and we be speeded, kept and saved.
The first is, use of man’s Reason natural; the second is, common teaching of Holy Church; the third is, inward gracious working of the Holy Ghost. And these three be all of one God: God is the ground of our natural reason; and God, the teaching of Holy Church; and God is the Holy Ghost. And all be sundry gifts to which He willeth that we have great regard, and attend us thereto. For these work in us continually all together; and these be great things.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 80

God, Speed, Nature, Life

“The true gift of existing, you understand it by living.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il vero dono di esistere, lo comprendi vivendo.
Source: prevale.net

Understanding

“Women are stars, a gift from heaven. And, when they are happy, they shine with their own light, intense and vital.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le donne sono stelle, un dono del cielo. E, quando sono felici, brillano di una luce propria, intensa e vitale.
Source: prevale.net

Light, Happiness, Star, Women

“A1 + EN FALK " LIFE LESSONSFROM ENGR. ABAH SULE " 1.1 Think he knows the best …, And stop controlling what is not yours to control. GW 2. Don't pray for bigger pray for better!!.. And have a sense of peace to go along with the plans and ideas you believe he has given you!!!. 3. The real test of faith comes when [ nothing you have tried has work the lord speak a word to you that seen to make no sense but I assure you doubt your doubts but never doubt God for one word from him can change everything. 4. For as long as you have your greatest gift of all [ life ] then you should give your own gift to the maker because you haven't loose anything for the people you need are still around. 5. If you abide you will automatically abound cause he will involve you in one thing to teach you another. 6. To think ahead first focus on the present cause the level of our risk determines how far we can go in life sometimes many people in life want you to fail not because you're ahead of them but because you're drawn closer to your maker. www. theabahsulereadingclub. org.”

Engr.Abah Sule

Idea, Thinking, Sense, Life

“Music is a gift of life that has the power to transmit serenity to entire humanity.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica è un dono della vita che ha il potere di trasmettere serenità all'intera umanità.
Source: prevale.net

Music, Life

“THE INTUITIVE MIND IS A SACRED GIFT AND THE RATIONAL MIND IS A FAITHFUL SERVANT. WE HAVE CREATED A SOCIETY THAT HONORS THE SERVANT AND HAS FORGOTTEN THE GIFT.”

Engr.Abah Sule

Faith

“The woman is a special being to be esteemed and respected. An existential gift, to be loved and admired.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La donna è un essere speciale da stimare e rispettare. Un dono esistenziale, da amare ed ammirare.
Source: prevale.net

Love

“Losing the people who have been estranged from your life, at a very difficult time, is the most useful and important gift they could have given you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Perdere le persone allontanatesi dalla vostra vita in un momento molto difficile, è il regalo più utile ed importante che potessero farvi.
Source: prevale.net

Time, People, Life

“There are special, rare people who you do not meet by chance, but arrive as a gift from heaven. They reach out to you to encourage you, to be there for you in fragile moments, in the instants when the world seems to collapse on you. These people are part of that thin space of life, defined wonder.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Esistono persone speciali, rare, che non si incontrano per caso, ma che arrivano come un dono dal cielo. Ti raggiungono per incoraggiarti, per esserti accanto nei momenti di fragilità, negli istanti in cui il mondo sembra crollarti addosso. Queste persone fanno parte di quel sottile spazio di vita, definito meraviglia.
Source: prevale.net

People, World, Chance, Life

“Listen to music that warms your heart, seek melodies and enchants that gifting joy to your instants.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ascoltate musica che scaldi il cuore, cercate melodie e incanti che regalino gioia ai vostri istanti.
Source: prevale.net

Heart, Music, Joy

“Love and always be grateful to your mother. Despite her mistakes, merits or defects, she has granted you the most important, extraordinary and unrepeatable gift that can ever exist: life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Amate e siate sempre grati a vostra madre. Nonostante i suoi errori, pregi o difetti, vi ha concesso il dono più importante, straordinario e irripetibile che possa mai esistere: la vita.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life

“People who have the gift of pulling you out of constant and troublesome thoughts, are special. Take care of them, they are very rare.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le persone che hanno il dono di tirarvi fuori da costanti e fastidiosi pensieri, sono speciali. Abbiate cura di loro, sono molto rare.
Source: prevale.net

People

“He who possesses the rare gift of believing in friendship, knows your flaws and values them.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi possiede il raro dono di credere nell'amicizia, conosce i vostri difetti e li valorizza.
Source: prevale.net

Friendship

“He who has the gift to always come up with a solution, will be able to cope with any situation.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi ha il dono di trovare sempre una soluzione, sarà in grado di affrontare qualunque situazione.
Source: prevale.net

“When you happen to have cried in silence, when everyone thinks that you are only strong, when you feel sometimes broken, sometimes crazy, sometimes wrong… you are not: you are just too true for a world that sometimes prefers falsehood. This is your gift.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando vi capita di aver pianto in silenzio, quando tutti pensano che siate solo forti, quando vi sentite a volte rotti, a volte pazzi, a volte sbagliati... non lo siete: siete solo troppo veri per un mondo che a volte preferisce la falsità. Questo è il vostro dono.
Source: prevale.net

Strong, Silence, Thinking, World

“Always be true in a world that sometimes prefers deception. This will be your gift.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate sempre veri in un mondo che a volte preferisce l'inganno. Questo sarà il vostro dono.
Source: prevale.net

World

“Always be true in a world that sometimes prefers deception. This will be your gift.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate sempre veri in un mondo che a volte preferisce l'inganno. Questo sarà il vostro dono.
Source: prevale.net

World

“Always be true in a world that sometimes prefers deception. This will be your gift.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate sempre veri in un mondo che a volte preferisce l'inganno. Questo sarà il vostro dono.
Source: prevale.net

World

“Always be true in a world that sometimes prefers deception. This will be your gift.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate sempre veri in un mondo che a volte preferisce l'inganno. Questo sarà il vostro dono.
Source: prevale.net

World

“It's a great privilege for an adult to still have the gift to dream like a child.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: È un grande privilegio per un adulto avere ancora il dono di sognare come un bambino.
Source: prevale.net

Dreams

“Sensitivity is a gift of elegance and kindness, an act of courage, in a world often indifferent and superficial.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La sensibilità è un dono di eleganza e gentilezza, un atto di coraggio, in un mondo spesso indifferente e superficiale.
Source: prevale.net

Courage, Indifference, World

“The meeting of stories, hopes and fears… the confrontation with physical limit and pain confirm that life is a gift of great value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'incontro di storie, speranze e paure... il confronto con il limite fisico e il dolore, confermano che la vita sia un dono di grande valore.
Source: prevale.net

Fear, Pain, Hope, Life

“In a world dominated by frenzy, distractions, and superficiality, the most important gift one can give to a friend, a parent, or a sibling is to dedicate one's time to them.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In un mondo dominato da frenesia, distrazioni e superficialità, il dono più importante che si possa fare ad un amico, un genitore o un fratello è dedicargli il proprio tempo.
Source: prevale.net

Time, Siblings, Parent, World

“The true value of a person doesn't reside in what he possesses, but in the gift of his actions: presence, attention, affection and respect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il vero valore di una persona non risiede in ciò che possiede, ma nel dono delle sue azioni: presenza, attenzione, affetto e rispetto.
Source: prevale.net

Personality

“Getting away from our live is the greatest and important gift that some individuals can give us.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Allontanarsi dalla nostra vita è il regalo più grande e importante che alcuni individui possano farci.
Source: prevale.net

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Quotes about gift
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