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Quotes About Receiving

Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.
~ bell hooks
Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it.
~ bell hooks
The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.
~ bell hooks
Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it.
~ bell hooks
Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it.
~ bell hooks
Giving is the way we also learn how to receive. The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love. A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers -- the experience of knowing we always belong.
~ bell hooks
John 1:16: "From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
~ Beth Moore
Indeed, we have all received grace after grace from His fullness. John 1:16
~ Beth Moore
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. Matthew 21:22
~ Beth Moore
tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them. Mark 11:24
~ Beth Moore
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
~ Maxim Gorky
When you receive God's love, it means you're getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that choosing to receive God's love changes your life.
~ Stormie Omartian
take care what you ask, for you shall surely receive it.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
in this world, if you give nothing out, you get nothing back
~ Josephine Cox
Miss Manners has always believed that people who do not acknowledge presents are annoyed at receiving them, and she respects that preference.
~ Judith Martin
ready to greet the postman, always opening the door to take in her mail as if her letter box had been sealed up
~ Judy Astley
My heart swells," she mimicked. She snapped out of her caricature, and said sternly, "Woman don't like to be on the receiving end of sarcasm." "They only like to give it," he drawled.
~ Julia Quinn
It is sometimes dangerous to make requests to men, who are too desirous of receiving them.
~ Fanny Burney
The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play.... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.
~ Ferran Adria
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" (Math. 21:22). "Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24).
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." "You must act as if you had already received.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to create activity in finances, one should give.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Jesus Christ taught that it was a great game of Giving and Receiving.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water - freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn