Quotes About Receiving

Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

Water and grace flow to persons and places that are lower.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

To find it, give the love that you seek.

You cannot get before you give. Wood cannot give you warmth before you start the fires.

true giving lies not in receiving but in giving

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

Don't give a gift with the expectation to get, but if you have a gift, always try to give.

Expect abundance to receive abundance.

Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.

Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life.

There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Pride of gifts hinders the Christian's trade—at least [its] thriving by their commerce, two ways. First. Pride of gifts is the cause why we do so little good with them to others. Second. Pride of gifts is the cause why we receive so little good from the gifts of others.

If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

Knowing God's love demands that we receive God's love—experientially, not simply as a theory. Personal knowledge is never simply a matter of the head. Because it is rooted in experience, it is grounded in deep places in our being. The things we know from experience we know beyond belief. Such knowing is not incompatible with belief, but it is not dependent on it.

For it is in giving that we receive. -St. Francis

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.