Sentences with phrase «than a gift for»

(Kimel also betrays ignorance of contemporary liturgical scholarship when he uses the term «command,» harking back to Reformation understandings of the sacraments as «ordinances» we must obey rather than gifts for which we give thanks.)

When I wrote the first book, it was meant as nothing more than a gift for my daughter when she grows up.

I told Scott I wan na donate to animal shelters this year for Xmas, rather than gifts for each other????

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As per above, post it more than that percentage of people love to receive gift cards instead of other gifts there are two benefits of gift cards if you give someone he can buy whatever he want or he can sell it for cash.

Other than decreasing your stress over whether your gifts will ship in time, the «Buy Online, Pick Up in Store» option is also useful for:

Handmade, this watch is much more than a novelty gift for fans of cold brews.

One solution for those of us with less than stellar creative gifts is practice.

Many people are buying gifts and experiences for friends, co-workers and pets rather than that special someone.

There's nothing worse than unhappy clients who haven't received their gifts in time for the holidays.

In an SEC filing, Facebook has said Zuckerberg will begin by gifting no more than $ 1 billion in stock annually for the next three years, and that he «intends to retain his majority voting position in our stock for the foreseeable future.»

Smart business owners know otherwise since more people than ever before are receiving gift cards, cash, or checks for their winter holiday gifts.

It's a «gift to the people of Los Angeles,» said Eli Broad, who along with his wife, Edythe, provided more than $ 200 million for the museum.

If you can find a way to do more for others in your company, more for the employees, more for the clients, than anybody else, your gifts will make room for you.

Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned,» she said.

Strategic gifting is particularly important for those who have an «estate» (your money and property) that exceed $ 5.43 million — any estates worth more than that will be taxed, up to a whopping 40 %.

Gifting «appreciated assets» — stocks, bonds or mutual fund shares that you've held for more than one year and that have increased in value — to charity often flies under the radar due to the popularity of cash donations.

If you're thinking about visiting Japan any time soon, then opt for the special, regional editions if you can — they're a lot more natural in flavour than the regular bars, and the packaging makes a great gift.

In the end, it's all the same game: Accumulating good assets that are structured intelligently and throw off fresh funds for you to spend, reinvest, save, gift, or donate, empowering you to arrange your day doing what it is you enjoy, and spending time with the people you love, rather than selling more hours of your life.

«What better gift than the ability to create a new career for yourself?»

It took longer than usual for a block to pick up my transaction which delayed the gift card a bit.

«But if you went to a charity dinner and paid $ 1,000 per plate and the meal was valued at only $ 500, you get to deduct the difference because you actually paid more than the value you received in exchange for your «gift,»» he said.

If you work for one of the matching gift companies listed below, you can join the more than 7,000 WGBH members who take an extra step to support public broadcasting.

We'd rather charge less in fees than spend our clients» money on gifts to our clients that they wouldn't have bought for themselves.

Americans for Financial Reform balked at the Act, explaining in a statement on Thursday that the legislation «contains so many unprecedented gifts to the financial industry that it would make financial regulation even weaker than it was before the crisis.»

BFS Capital participated and employees and their families contributed more than 170 gifts for the children of South Florida who may not have had a present at Christmas.

In October 2016, when the first round of B - 20 implemented stress testing for high - ratio (those paying less than 20 per cent down) borrowers, those fortunate enough to receive down payment gifts from parents that bumped them into the low - ratio category were able to skirt the test altogether.

In some cases, you might be able to redeem cash or points for a gift card with a face value that does more good than a statement credit or cash back.

The stock's fair market value at the time of the gift is less than your original cost basis — for example, $ 8 per share.

If the stock is sold for less than its market value at the time of the gift — for example, $ 6 — your loved one's cost basis will be $ 8, and his or her capital loss will be $ 2 a share.

The rules change if you're putting down less than 20 %, when you may use only some of the cash gift for the down payment and must provide the rest from your own savings.

At each point - of - sale, ask if it can be purchased elsewhere for cheaper, if we can do without it completely, and seek to utilize cash back cards, gift cards, Amazon, credit card hacking, and Craigslist rather than paying retail.

«GFI is 100 % supported by philanthropic gifts and grants, so we have no programs (such as earned income, fees for service, merchandise sales, etc.) other than development that generate revenue.»

Therefore, if held as investment property and held for longer than one year, the donor may deduct the fair market value of the gift up to 30 % of AGI.

The cost of gifts, meals, and entertainment should always remain at or below that permitted by local law and in no event should the amount be greater than the legitimate and customary expenditure for such activities by private businesspersons in the country.

We don't recommend gift cards unless you can get a better rate than $ 0.01 and would only earn 1x points for shopping with your credit card.

Less than a year ago eGifter began using BitPay to accept Bitcoin as a payment option for gift cards.

Most patristic and medieval writers preferred to talk about miracles and miracle workers rather than charismatic gifts for a number of reasons such as the dominant gift list being Isaiah 11, not 1 Corinthians 12 and Jerome's translating charismata as «graces» (gratiae).

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

To test the thesis of the power of prayer and the notion that learning is product «God's gifts» rather than humanity's strivings, pray for a proof, disproof or proof of the undecidability of the Riemann hypothesis.

And when the Other asks for us, it is a gift to give what we actually are rather than the image we have spent years craving and morphing ourselves into.

It's for those who are interested in a totally different take on the baptism of the Spirit and spiritual gifts than the Pentecostal view and the cessationist view.

Personally, I can not imagine a worse judgement for sin than to have my children brutally murdered, and the greatest gift of this life (being a parent) taken away from me.

Few things bless a church more than the precious gift of leaders who serve together in unity for the joy of their people.

Rather than wait and do my usual «Favourite Books» post at the end of December, I decided to do it now so that you can mine the list for gifts!

But if we build a booth to them, erect a frame around them and enshrine them, we can end up worshiping those moments or memories or persons to the extent that they become a hindrance, a stumbling block or even idolatry — rather than unmerited gift from God and resource for service to others.

And so we too, daily engaged in our own all too human journey, searching for that which would have us be so much more than we are, and bearing our unworthy gifts, kneel on the stable floor beside these royal ones, worshiping with them the child who is most royal.

If you ever doubt that C. S. Lewis was gifted with a prophetic voice, you need look no further for correction than Prince Caspian.In the story, you may remember, Narnia is in a desperate situation.

When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health and her life.

I confess I am one of that minority of readers who admire Kierkegaard more for his literary and satiric gifts than for his contribution to philosophy — which I regard as dubious — or his understanding of Christianity — which I regard as, in many significant respects, disastrously false.

I am more grateful than I have ever been for you, for my family, for Dan, for friends, for kind words, and for the gift of life.