He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.
Love mistakes, as it’s us that receives blessings from them in the end.
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.
A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.
Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion.
You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.
That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.