Small Gifts Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Small Gifts". There are currently 16 quotes in our collection about Small Gifts. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Small Gifts!
The best sayings about Small Gifts that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

    Dog   Rivers   Honor  
    Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin
  • The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.

    Robert A. Johnson (1983). “We, understanding the psychology of romantic love”, Harper San Francisco
  • We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

    Sick   Waiting   Comfort  
  • We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press
  • Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.

    Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin
  • He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1868). “The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.322
  • In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

    Artist   Order   Joy  
    Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.150, Souvenir Press
  • The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  • You seek problems because you need their gifts.

    1977 Illusions.
  • Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

    John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.82
  • Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  • Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

    Mom   Mother   Years  
  • Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

  • Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

  • When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.

  • Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

    Self   Boredom   Joy  
    John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.64, Harper Collins
Page 1 of 1
We hope our collection of Small Gifts quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Small Gifts is constantly growing (today it includes 16 sayings from famous people about Small Gifts), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Small Gifts!