#gifts

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. ↗

— James Broughton

#create #desire #destroy #even #fearing

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#best #gifts #god #man #put

Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#everyone #gifts #honestly #i #just

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#best #blessed #certain #gave #gifts

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#giving #language #life

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. ↗

— John Wyndham

#life #life

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

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