Quotes About Receptivity

I try to approach every day with hands that are open, not grasping.

Chuang Tzu had an apt view on such quiet receptivity: "There is happiness in stillness.... If you are open to everything you see and hear, and allow this to act through you, even gods and spirits will come to you."6

I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.

During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.