Quotes About Receiving

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Christ is the bread of life (John 6:35). Whatever we take into us as food will be assimilated into our being. This is very meaningful and significant. God is life to us in the form of food. We need to receive Him by eating Him. Once God enters into us, He becomes the flow of life within us. For proper eating we need food and drink. John 6 covers the bread of life for our eating, and John 7 covers the living water for our drinking.

For in giving, we receive.

ne demande jamais à en recevoir, mais la façon

That's the prayer God loves to answer. Have you ever prayed, "Lord, give me more money so I can give more money to someone else"? "For your work"? This is how Jesus prays: "Give this to me and then I can give more to you. Give me more time and I'll give more time to you. Give me more energy and I'll have more energy to give to you." Jesus was right to pray, "Give glory to me,

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22)

What you believe you can receive if you doubt it you will do without it.

Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy.

By giving up what you are holding, you create emptiness to receive.

For it is in giving that we receive.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

That is the fundamental question; how to trust that she has a heart and that she can, little by little, receive love, be transformed by love, and then give love.

The gift cannot be received unless it is given, for otherwise it would cease to merit its name. The basin is not filled up by the cascade from above unless it ceaselessly empties itself into the basin below. Only the abandonment of that which fills it permits that the stream to come should fill it without cease.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

It's not the value of the gift, but the philosophy of the giving and receiving," Francis replied. "It's a hard world, all in all, and to receive a present means someone else cares for you, that you're not alone.

Getters don't get — givers get. — Eugene Benge

To learn is to receive, and then it is to give, and then it is to give again.

Jesus comes into our lives in these places of need. And if we recognize Him because of our need, then we can receive whatever it is that He is prepared to offer us whether it's the grace of forgiveness or the patience to wait for the answer to that prayer or healing or serenity in the midst of the worst times of your life. Whatever it is, you can receive it and say, "Thank You, Lord.

How come you can't give with both hands, Mom? How come you have to give with one and take away with the other?

Joke or not, something is occurring to me. You live your life, and you get to ask for things, and sometimes they are given to you. Just