Gift From God Quotes - Page 9

• I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers.

  Nate Parker

  Blue, Actors, Clarity

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The greatest gift of God to us today is right guidance. The enemy has money that he can throw at problems but the problems never get solved because we're violating the good guidance and warning that God sent to us through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Enemy, Today, Problem

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Free agency is a gift of God....The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent as intelligence which, we are told, has never been nor can be created

  David O. McKay

  Agency, Doe, World

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• George Bush says that gay people getting married would violate the sanctity of marriage. Is anybody here married? Does it feel like a gift from God to you?

  Greg Giraldo

  Gay, People, Doe

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• Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Care, Today

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• Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On these words of His all our work is based.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Sick, Naked

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• A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

  Robert South

  True Friend, Heart, Made

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• We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Environmental, Body, Earth

  Joan D. Chittister (2004). “Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.181, Sheed & Ward

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• Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.

  John Taylor

  Peace, Over You, Religion

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• People are born to be free; it's a gift from God.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Born, Born To Be Free

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• Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of an artist, or a great book flows out of an author.

  Ray Arcel

  Art, Book, Flow

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• I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Numbers, Care

  "VA scandal 'a gift from God' because it showed Americans how bad Obamacare will be, conservative commentator Ben Carson says" by Francesca Chambers, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2014.

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• To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himself to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Would Be, Legs

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• Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

  John Calvin

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Geneva Psalter". Book by John Calvin, 1539.

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• People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.

  Sarada Devi

  Pain, Grief, Compassion

  "In the Company of the Holy Mother" by Advaita Ashrama, (pp. 220-221), 1993.

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• Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

  Herrick Johnson

  Heaven, Dying, Depth

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Levels, Music Is

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• There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. are Jefferson's words, 'The God Who gave us life gave us liberty -- can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?'

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Spiritual, Differences

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• Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

  Martin Luther

  Understanding, Riches, Fairs

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.67

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• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Heart, Evil

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• Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Glory, Used

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• Faith is a gift of God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.215, David C Cook

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• Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

  Izaak Walton

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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• It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

  Laurence Sterne

  Humor, Wish, Half

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.395

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• All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Beautiful, Pain, Lying

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