1,605 Quotes About Gift

You are unique with unique talents for unique purpose.

Every gift that we will ever receive, bar one, will die ‘with us.’ The only gift that died ‘for us’ so that nothing ever need die ‘with us’ is the gift that God handed us on Christmas. And as for me, I done with all the dying.

To embrace God does not involve some complex formula of endless dictates or the embracing of a rule mongering tyrant with a forever list of expectations. It simply involves saying “yes” to the gift of Christmas and “no” to every lesser gift simply because every other gift is lesser. And how simple is that?

The only thing that Christmas didn’t change was our refusal to change, for God extends invitations but He does not demand that we accept them.

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

I suppose that Christmas seems vexingly improbable in my mind because that’s not anything that I would do. But isn’t that the exact reason why we need Christmas?

All of us, minus the part of us we wish to keep for ourselves, adds up to none of us. And that’s typically what we give God.

Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...

To be enriched in the giving, I must at the self-same time be completely depleted by it. For if I am not depleted, I have not given in the first place and therefore I will not be enriched in any place.