639 Quotes About Gifts

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

Do not compare yourself to others when setting goals. You are a unique individual with your very own gifts, talents, and abilities. Therefore, where God is calling you to go, what God is calling you to do, and who God is calling you to be will be different from every other person on this planet.

...only through losing ourselves and becoming reliant on God can we discover how to use those gifts the way he wants us to use them. We will find the artist God intends us to be when we empty ourselves of self and become open to his plan and to the inspiration of his Holy Spirit. Only then will we experience personal artistic revival.

And even as I'm telling her what I have done with my life, I realize that I have in fact learned what I am good at, what she told me so very long ago I needed to figure out. I am good at loving people, I have always been good at loving people, and I don't suppose there's any skill better than that. Surely that is what God intended all along for me.

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.

One thing that I know for certain is that you are untapped potential. But the one thing that I don’t know for certain is if you’re going to un-tap it. For it you don’t, we will all be the lesser for it. And that I know for certain.

It’s not about our liabilities. Rather, it’s about the absence of any belief in our abilities. And if we can embrace our abilities in order to press our liabilities into bowed submission, we have in fact rendered that which is impossible as suddenly descended into the realm of that which is gloriously possible.

All other businesses we do for living and for leaving good and great footprints are good! In fact, we must not let our gifts and talents be idle, but in all our endeavors we must not forget that there is one more noble business than any, and that is touching and saving lives for the Kingdom of God, in truth and in spirit, and proclaiming the coming of Jesus Christ with all due diligence, understanding, humility, courage and fortitude!

We are what we.