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Gift Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most…
- What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
- What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a…
- His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is…
- Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
- Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.
- True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result…
- The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to…
- To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath…
- This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of…
- Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them…
- To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us...and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw…
More Gift Quotes
- 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