Quotes About Receiving

The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more assuredly and consistently will community increase and grow from day to day as God pleases.

In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one's own acts and deeds, compared with what we become only through other people.

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.

9 Así les digo yo, añadió Jesús: Pidan, y se les dará; busquen, y hallarán; llamen, y se les abrirá. 10 Porque todo aquel que pide, recibe; y quien busca, halla; y al que llama, se le abrirá.

Accept grace when it's offered

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.

The idea of life is to give and receive.

I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm.

Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.

The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.

Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given.

Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Grace is the offer of exactly what we do not deserve. Thus, it cannot be recognized or received until we are aware of precisely how undeserving we really are. It is the knowledge of what we do not deserve that allows us to receive grace for what it is. Unmerited. Unearned. Undeserved. For that reason, grace can only be experienced by those who acknowledge they are undeserving.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Promises aren't received by asking the Lord for them, trusting him to give them to us, or confessing them. They are the life that emanates from obeying his commandments—Wisdom.

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. – John 1:16 NIV