The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
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