#gift

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability. ↗

— Betty Cuthbert

#age #best #early #early age #gave

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won. ↗

— Betty Cuthbert

#better #ever #free #gift #gold

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#comes #envy #gifts #ignorance #lack

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

#blindness #excepting #folly #gifts #give

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#gift #i #i think #same #think

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#chance #few #gift #happens #turn

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves. ↗

— Billy Graham

#servant-heart #service #spiritual-gifts #faith

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped. ↗

— John Doolittle

#desire #gift #increasing #internet #invented

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#day #every #every day #gift #matter

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn. ↗

— Robin Trower

#born #gift #learn #make #music