Quotes About Receiving

Throughout the book I have continually used the phrase earning and receiving. Why do I keep adding the words "and receiving?" Because, as everyone who has ever tried to sell anything has discovered, to his dismay, it's one thing to earn a fee, but quite another to actually receive it. You make a grave mistake if you develop the habit of prematurely celebrating.

Gratitude is a way of seeing ourselves as recipients of blessings rather than demanders of rights.

The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.

Setea dependentului de a pl?cea const? în dorinÈ›a incontrolabil? de a da f?r? a primi, iar r?spunsul pozitiv al celor care primesc aceast? atenÈ›ie reprezint? doza.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

Giving gave every bit as much pleasure as receiving—if not more, and denying that pleasure to others could be churlish.

What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.

Where God leads you to pray, He means you to receive.

And He is love, which means He overflows in sacrificial ways. But His sacrifices are not throwaways, but always come back to Him thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold. Love is fruitful, and in imitation of Him we begin to learn that the more we give, the more we have.

In giving a gift, you are attached to it. In receiving a gift, the blessing that comes to the giver is your chief delight.

You cannot receive what you are unwilling for God to give to someone else also.

Aren't waiters wonderful? You ask them for things and they bring them... It's the same principle as Santa Claus.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. —JOHN 1:16

What you give comes back to you. It's not tit for tat--life isn't that simple--but what you give always comes back to you.