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Gift Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
- Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to.
- Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.
- Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
- As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm…
- The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love,…
- Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive…
- Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought…
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- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it… — Saint Augustine
- Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. — Richard Bach
- Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. — Richard Bach
- What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good… — Erykah Badu
- Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real… — Erykah Badu
- First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a… — Oksana Baiul
- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see… — Javier Bardem
- If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI