Small Gifts Quotes:

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1868). “The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.322

topic: Giving, Small Gifts, Give Me

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

- John Bunyan

source: 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

topic: Grace, Small Gifts, Great Gifts

Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.

- Mary Oliver

source: Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

topic: Dog, Joyfulness, Small Gifts

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

- Richard Bach

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Christmas Gift, Friendship Day

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Relationship, Sympathy, Heart, Inspirational Baby, Winni The Pooh

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

- Peg Bracken

topic: Christmas, Time And Love, Ingredients, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

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

source: Robert A. Johnson (1983). “We, understanding the psychology of romantic love”, Harper San Francisco

topic: Marriage, Encouragement, Real, Difficult Moments, Small Gifts

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

topic: Gratitude, Giving, Thankfulness, Christian Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Christian

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.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Mom, Mother, Years, Small Gifts, Cardboard Boxes

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

- Richard Bach

topic: Happiness, Spiritual, Wisdom, Messiah, Small Gifts

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

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Girl, Hair, Heaven, Curly Hair, Small Gifts

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.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Sick, Waiting, Comfort, Small Gifts

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.

- Julia Cameron

source: Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.150, Souvenir Press

topic: Artist, Order, Joy, Gifts Of Life, Small Gifts

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."

- John Ortberg

topic: Self, Boredom, Joy, Small Gifts

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.

- Zicheng Hong

topic: Gratitude, Sacrifice, Self, Recompense, Self-satisfaction

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.

- Whitley Strieber

topic: Christmas, Mother, Brother, Christmas Carol, Fountain Pens

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?

- Mary Oliver

source: Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

topic: Dog, Rivers, Honor, Joyfulness, Small Gifts