God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver

  2. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. - Jim Valvano

  3. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  4. A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

  5. What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. - Unknown

More Quotes By Pope Francis
  1. Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.

  2. Families who lovingly accept the difficult trial of a child with special needs are greatly to be admired. They render the Church and society an invaluable witness of faithfulness to the gift of life. In these situations, the family can discover, together with the Christian...

  3. Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just by looking at him, just raising our eyes from ourselves and our wounds, we leave an opening for the action of his grace....

  4. We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.

  5. What need does the earth have of us?

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