“Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.”

“If God is love, if God is gift given eternally, then our participation in the life of God happens not by escaping our everyday world, but by entering more deeply into the life of love and that paradoxical logic of gift in that we receive most richly only when we make "gifting" others a way of life.”

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”

“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”

“Gift better than Himself God doth not know,Gift better than God no man can see;This gift doth here the giver given bestowGift to this gift let each receiver be;God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.”

“God's greatest gift is to endow human beings with the capacity to perceive - and the create - holiness.”