#gifts

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. ↗

— John Owen

#equal #fair #gifts #grace #higher

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. ↗

— Walter Pater

#attitude #before #brilliancy #day #discriminate

I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day. ↗

— Katy Perry

#day #early #every #every day #found

Gifts make slaves. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#make #slaves

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#come #gifts #sorts #spiritual #through

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#gifts #gods #recall #their #themselves

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. ↗

— Nancy Holmes

#dangerous #gifts #heavenly #poetry-in-disguise #rebel

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me. ↗

— William P. Smith

#coveting #envy #gifts #theology #love

The best gifts one can give to someone are not things, the best ones to offer are a little Time, Love, Care and Respect. ↗

— Venkat Desireddy

#gifts #love #respect #time #love

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. ↗

— Quintilian

#better #born #destruction #dumb #employ