“Love is a gift. Not a bribe.”
“When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.”
“What a gift, the gift of recognition. The gift of permission. Be who you are. It means everything, and when others who matter give it to you, it becomes easier, though never easy, to give that permission to yourself. Gregory Martin: Stories For Boys: A Memoir”
“If you give me a gift, it’d be insulting to pay you, because I’d be denying you the gift of giving. So my gift to you is to accept your gift, thereby allowing you to enjoy the gift of giving.”
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”