One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.
Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
You can only receive what you're willing to give.
I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
Paul ascended into the third heavens and he could understand the THREE PRINCIPLE ROUNDS of Jacobs ladder - the telestial, the terrestrial, and the celestial glories or kingdoms, when Paul saw and heard things which were not lawful to utter. I COULD EXPLAIN A HUNDREDFOLD MORE THAN I EVER HAVE of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision were I permitted and were the people ready to receive them.
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.
Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.
Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.
How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!