To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.
By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the originator. Jesus paid it all, not 99% of it. Paul wrote, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast"
India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.
When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.
But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.
At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.
The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.
It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within. . . and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it once, but hand it over directly to the recipient.
All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.
