Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4:10
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 2 Timothy 1:6
“Each of you has his own endowment from God, one to live in this way, another in that. It is an impertinence, then, to try to find out why St. Paul was not given St. Peter’s grace, or St. Peter given Paul’s. There is only one answer to such questions: the Church is a garden patterned with countless flowers, so there must be a variety of sizes, colors, scents–of perfections, after all. Each has its own value, its charm, its joy; while the whole vast cluster of these variations makes for beauty in its most graceful form.”
Francis de Sales (1567-1622) French Bishop and Author on topics of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Direction in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, 160.