Quotes About Receiving

GRATITUDE is intellectually compelling and it is a very good trait—so why are we so often ungrateful? There are two reasons for this. The first is that a person's first impression is that everything comes by itself, and that it is all coming to him. The other reason is: when I receive good from someone and I recognize that good, I became indebted to him. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

One of the reasons many physicians feel drained by their work is that they do not know how to make an opening to receive anything from their patients. The way we were trained, receiving is considered unprofessional. The way most of us were raised, receiving is considered a weakness.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

People send you stuff if you say you're interested in something. I have a tonne of body lotion. So I could mention I was interested in, you know, surfing, and some company would send me a surfboard.

I'm not a good gift-giver, other than the fact that I like surprising people. I usually give what people ask for but I try to make it seem like I'm not buying it.

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

If God can get money through you, He'll get it to you!

The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.

Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some.

It is just as important to give all of what you are, than all of what you have. Nevertheless, it is always reciprocated.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.