Quotes About Receiving

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.

Jesus seems to often find love in people who might not have received much love themselves. Perhaps their deep longing for it became their capacity to both receive it and give it.

Ask, and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened." —Matthew 7:7–8

Mary is all of us both receiving and handing on the gift. We liked her precisely because she was one of us—and not God!

If Christ and Jesus are the archetypes of what God is doing, Mary is the archetype of how to receive what God is doing and hand it on to others.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Don't wait to receive until you feel worthy. Your self-esteem will go up as a result of receiving. ~Amanda Owen

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

Prayer is not trying to twist God's arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

He who prays most receives most.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

If we seek and keep on seeking, we will find; if we ask and keep on asking, we will receive; if we knock and keep on knocking, the door to truth will be opened. How can we refuse an offer like this?

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.