Quotes About Receiving

The things for which we owe thanks are not things we have from ourselves. They are given to us. We receive many gifts, of many kinds. But the highest and really most lasting gift given to us is always our essential nature, with which we are gifted in such a way that we are what we are only through it. That is why we owe thanks for this endowment, first and unceasingly.

Life, if lived well, was enjoying random acts of kindness that elicited joy from giver and receiver alike. Each time she was reminded of this, she vowed to try to be a better giver than a receiver.

You have love all wrong, Gwendoline. It is not all give, give, give. It is taking as well. It is allowing the other one the pleasure and joy of giving. Let me love you.

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.

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

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

The love you give away is the love you keep.

You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.

I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

The only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet.

The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.

I don't really know what I'm hoping for, but all suggestions gratefully received.

The trouble is, we are often afraid of our own emotions, or we are afraid to share or receive the emotions of others. We get embarrassed and perhaps offended by them. We try to suppress them or deny them, which is really rather silly when you think that God created our emotions just as much as every other dimension of our embodied human life.

we know how much we are allowing ourselves to experience the hesed of God based on how much we give it out to others.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

I feel sorry for you, then. Trust is as precious as it is rare, but you only get it by giving it." Ematt was sounding an awful lot like the old man had. "Trust isn't given, it's earned," Solo said. "Like friendship." "You must be very lonely," Ematt said. Solo didn't respond.

I was sure there had to be a pay-off, somehow, and I kept waiting for it. I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

People are not the Source of Love. They are the object that we give love to.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

It's more than bones. It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It's more than the beating of the single heart. It's praising. It's giving until the giving feels like receiving. You have a life - just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.