"'Stick to your stuff and your stuff will stick to you'"
"'I know my gifts and I'll die in 'em'"
(From 'Hawkeye' in "Last of the Mohicans")

What I found interesting is that he was speaking of white man's gifts as opposed to the gifts of the redskin. But it may be contextualized and simply confirms what I have believed, read, and observed considering a Christian's gifts and calling.

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Bobby Gawthrop, V.D.M.
licensed, ordained SBC, licensed PCA
Ph.D. student (Whitefield Theological Seminary)
"Every minister in those days had a V.D.M. degree: Verbum Dei Minister. When, therefore, I became a teacher of apologetics it was natural for me to think, not only of my Th.M. and my Ph.D., but above all of my V.D.M. The former degrees were but means whereby I might be true to the latter degree." Cornelius Van Til