{"id":8962,"date":"2016-08-16T23:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/talents\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:46","slug":"talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/talents\/","title":{"rendered":"TALENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>See also: Ability<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those that sing best.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Matthew Arnold<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Anne Bront\u00eb<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>You must know that every man cannot be excellent, yet he may be useful. An iron key may unlock the door of a golden treasure; yea, iron can do things gold cannot do!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Thomas Brooks<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Your talent is God\u2019s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Leo Buscaglia<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Calvin<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Talent is God given; be humble.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Fame is man-given; be grateful.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Conceit is self-given; be careful.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Wooden<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no bird sang there except those that sang best.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Henry Van Dyke<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: Ability Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those that sing best. Author unknown Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold All our talents increase in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/talents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TALENTS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}