Top 1200 Spiritual Gifts Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity lies in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed.

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

I feel that one of the greatest gifts you can give someone is the truth, but sometimes my words will get stuck on the way out.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

I've tried to live my life in a way that respects the beliefs of my mother and father. Everyone has blessings, gifts, passion, and drive.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation between the spiritual power and the executive power, between the church and the government, unfortunately takes away the Church's basic mission. It takes away their right to speak on moral or ethical subjects.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

I have the most incredible fans, and they have given me so many wonderful gifts. My apartment is decorated almost entirely with fan art.

I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy.

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.

There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.

It's like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. The people who come to re:Invent are really excited about what the cloud is letting them do.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary and spiritual frequency as you will come closer to you; you will see how amazing it is to discover that everyone who needs to be by your side will ultimately appear in your life in the most spontaneous and divine manner. That's how powerful the mind is

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.

The discoveries of the last couple decades are showing that properties of a self do actually inhere in matter, that matter seems to have properties of self-organization and life, even intelligence, consciousness. I can't say that science has proved these things, but it at least suggests the possibility. As we re-invest the world with sacredness, "spiritual" comes to mean something very different. If only a human being has these qualities, then spiritual work is inner. It's all about your own consciousness.