Neil Strait

Posted on December 22, 2013April 17, 2014 by

The best gift a father can give to his children is the gift of himself-his time. For material things mean little if there is not someone to share them with.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Posted on December 18, 2013April 16, 2014 by

I think we’re going to have an exceptionally good Christmas. The very fact that outward circumstance precludes our making provision for it will show whether we can be content with what is truly essential. I used to be very fond of thinking up and buying presents, but now that we have nothing to give, the gift God gave us in the birth of Christ will seem all the more glorious … The poorer our quarters, the more clearly we perceive that our hearts should be Christ’s home on earth.

Francois Fenelon

Posted on August 12, 2013April 11, 2014 by

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

F. W. Boreham

Posted on July 9, 2013April 11, 2014 by

Each of us possesses gifts and graces which he is under solemn obligation to use for the general good.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

Posted on July 2, 2013September 20, 2014 by

There are individual Christians and Christian communities and churches which are dead because the living waters of the Gospel are always flowing into them, but they are not flowing out again to make the land fruitful. They receive gifts of knowledge and experience, but they do not share them with others. The gifts of the Word and of the Spirit come to them, but they do not give them out again to those who have them not.

John of Kronstadt

Posted on December 20, 2012April 13, 2014 by

That man is of a noble and elevated spirit who mercifully and generously scatters his gifts upon all, and rejoices when he has an opportunity of doing good and giving pleasure to everybody without thinking of being rewarded for it.

Thomas a Kempis

Posted on November 17, 2012April 13, 2014 by

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favours. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God.