Receiving Quotes - Page 2

• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Discipline, Genius

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.222, 谷月社

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• 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

  Giving, Ability, Ifs

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• In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Inspirational, Giving Not Receiving

  TheBookReport interview, www.bookreporter.com. October 29, 1999.

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• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex, Women, Thinking

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Friendship, Family

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• We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

  William Gurnall

  Giving, Done, Justified

  William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.22

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• Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

  Andrew Wommack

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Andrew Wommack Ministries from Aug 11, 2016

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• The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Being Yourself

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• When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Gratitude, Rights, Justice

  Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee

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• Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

  Wilfred Owen

  Funny, Ambition, Numbers

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.479, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

  Ellen G. White

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.36, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Teamwork, Giving Up, Mean

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 03, 2012

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• Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

  Julian Bond

  Education, Children, School

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• Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivational, Home, Boxing

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• We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

  Phineas F. Bresee

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

  Julie B. Beck

  Skills, Personality, Important

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• Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

  Martin Luther

  Two, Giving, And Love

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• Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Size, Vessel

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• A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

  Aristotle

  Iron, Gold, Pieces

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1482, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sweet, Jesus, Blessed

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• In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Believe, Book, Men

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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• Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

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• I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Love, Hope, Giving Up

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Abide With Me”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Mean, Giving, Perfect

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