Quotes About Reception

J. Gresham Machen solemnly warned, False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the Gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation to be controlled by ideas which prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion.1

Because it's in the nature of a gift, the offering and the reception, to create relationship and to overcome that which divides, one can't remain in the way of the gift and also definitively disassociate. When a gift occurs, we see ourselves in others, our very lives sustained by the grace of others, and we find we can hardly hold ourselves apart. The gift occasions communion, that wholeness for which we're all longing in one way or another most of the time.

However, there is a proviso here. Scripture will prove sufficient if we are able to receive from it all that God has put into it.

The preponderance of canned laughter on the American boob tube presents the viewer with a conundrum of three choices without the possibility of answering incorrectly. 1. The material is not that funny. 2. The audience is really that stupid. 3. Both 1 and 2.

The Holy Spirit is compared with wine, not because He brings foolishness and chaos, but because He brings boldness and joy. Just as people receive wine in celebration, so are we to receive the Holy Spirit with gladness. His presence, like wine, marks the occasion.

Some would say you're abusing my generosity." "Impertinent bastards.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

What God sends is welcome.

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.

Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

For me, I have to go out and people have to already like me for my promo to be good.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.