Free Gifts Quotes:

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Men, Free Gifts, Saving, Abstention

Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

- Philip Yancey

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Hands, Free Gifts, Grace

I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.

- George Whitefield

source: George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.128

topic: Jesus, Blood, Free Gifts

What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

topic: Selfish, Free Gifts, Perfection, Selfless Love

We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

- John Piper

topic: Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things, Loving Relationships, Basic Needs

Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice—a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:28) and “Knock, and it shall be [given] you” (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbs—come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith.

- Richard C. Edgley

topic: Fall, Free Gifts, Choices, Appropriate

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

- Samuel Johnson

source: "The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: With an Essay On His Life and Genius".

topic: Free Gifts, Names, Lasts

The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

- James F. Cooper

topic: Men, Air, Free Gifts, Water Power, Water Resources

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Free Gifts

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Positive, Love Is, Expectations, Light Of Love, Gift Of Love

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

- George Santayana

topic: Miracle, Moments, Existence, Free Gifts

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

- Augustus Toplady

source: Augustus Toplady (1794). “The Works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.250

topic: Holiness, Repentance, Eternal Life, Free Gifts

I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.502, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

topic: Free Gifts

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won

- Betty Cuthbert

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Gold, Salvation, Medal, Free Gifts

I think there's a faith formula in that verse: believe plus receive equals become. So I think believing's important, having intellectual agreement with Christian doctrine is important, but there has to be a time when we receive God's gift of grace - not that we've earned it or merit it or deserve it - but receive this free gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased on the cross for us.

- Lee Strobel

source: Source: www.patheos.com

topic: Christian, Jesus, Believe, Christian Doctrine, Free Gifts

Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return.

- Mark Galli

topic: Fashion, Grateful, Heart, Quid Pro Quo, Demolish

... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

- Pope Francis

topic: Pride, Care, Manipulation, Free Gifts

Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession

- Saint Joseph

topic: Unique, Men, Grace, Free Gifts

If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal,-justification, sanctification, glory,-the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone?

- C. I. Scofield

topic: Christian, Running, Sacrifice, Free Gifts

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

- Mark Hopkins

source: Mark Hopkins (1837). “Sermons”

topic: Way, Salvation, Accepting, Free Gifts

Salvation is a free gift.

- John R. Rice

topic: Salvation, Free Gifts

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Age, Blithe, Given, Free Gifts

Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person can ever make. I invited Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life and made a commitment to follow Him. God offers each of us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus by "confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). It is a wonderful and peaceful feeling to serve a God who loves me and cares about every detail of my life.

- R.A. Dickey

topic: Jesus, Believe, Commitment, Choices And Decisions, Faith In Jesus

I grew up in a Christian home, but was nearly 17 before I realized I had to make my own decision to place my trust in Christ. Salvation cannot be earned by doing good works or going to church, and can't be automatically passed on from Christian parents. Salvation is a free gift from God, who sent His Son Jesus Christ to die in our place.

- Drew Pinsky

topic: Christian, Jesus, Home, Christian Home, Free Gifts

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Children, Father, Light, Light Of Christ, Free Gifts

When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Hands, Passerby, Free Gifts

This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself.

- Hannah

topic: Men, Years, Wish, Free Gifts

Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Acceptance, Dark, Men, Free Gifts, Blind Acceptance

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Acceptance, Giving, Grace, Free Gifts

To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be "in Christ" is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be "in Christ" is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son's righteous standing.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Father, Son, Giving, Free Gifts, Father In Heaven

For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day-and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.

- Ken Ham

topic: Atheist, Names, One Day, Free Gifts, Name Calling

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves."

- Henry Hazlitt

topic: Government, Debt, World, Free Gifts

It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.

- Leon Morris

topic: People, Grace, Merit, Free Gifts

Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed, strengthened and assisted in pursuing the innate desire for happiness in the heart of every man and of every woman.

- Pope Benedict XVI

source: Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “Holy Men and Women from the Middle Ages and Beyond”, p.75, Ignatius Press

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Heart, Free Gifts

In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul.

- Robert Morneau

topic: Character, Garden, Soul, Faith Hope And Love, Centerpieces

The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

- Mark Batterson

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Jesus, Free Gifts

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

- Timothy Keller

source: Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.44, Penguin

topic: Life, God, Religious, Changed Life, Free Gifts