Quotes About Receiving

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When

In The Gifts of Imperfection, I write, "Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

A shriveled humanity has a shrunken capacity for receiving the rays of God's love.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

We will never believe that we have anything to give unless there is someone who is able to receive.

It is not easy for us, busy people, to truly receive a blessing. Perhaps the fact that few people offer a real blessing is the sad result of the absence of people who are willing and able to receive such a blessing. It has become extremely difficult for us to stop, listen, pay attention, and receive gracefully what is offered to us.

Prayer then becomes an attitude that sees the world not as something to be possessed but as a gift that speaks constantly of the Giver. It leads us out of the suffering that comes from insisting on doing things our way. It opens our hearts to receive. And prayer refreshes our memory about how other people reveal to us the gift of life.

A lot of giving and receiving has a violent quality, because the givers and receivers act more out of need than out of trust. What looks like generosity is actually manipulation, and what looks like love is really a cry for affection or support.

Gratitude in its deepest sense means to live life as a gift to be received thankfully. And true gratitude embraces all of life: the good and the bad, the joyful and the painful, the holy and the not-so-holy. We do this because we become aware of God's life, God's presence in the middle of all that happens.

Faith is precisely trusting that you who give gratuitously will receive gratuitously, but not necessarily from the person to whom you gave.

The father's touching the son is an everlasting blessing; the son resting against his father's breast is an eternal peace. Christian Tümpel writes: "The moment of receiving and forgiving in the stillness of its composition lasts without end. The movement of the father and the son speaks of something that passes not, but lasts forever.

Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.

I shall be the wild park in the midst of the nightmare of perfection, the still, unshakeable dream in the midst of frenzied activity, the random shot on the white billiard table of logic, I shall know neither how to weep nor protest, but I shall be there always in absolute silence to receive and to restore.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

There is nothing more real and more important in life than the love that we give away and the love that we receive.

By giving, you get, if you don't give, don't expect.

By sharing, we express our gratitude for abundance and create emptiness for receiving.

Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice.

When we give with love and joy, and accept with an open heart and deep gratitude, abundance fills our emptiness.

Love is the only asset, when you give it away you feel happy and when you receive it back you feel happy.

Love is a longing for giving and receiving.