Capacity To Receive Quotes

#1. The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge ... it would not be the source of necessary truths ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

#2. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Rumi

#3. And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

Dee Hock

#6. Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

Peter R. Grant

#7. The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive the,. and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

Aristotle.

#8. You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our "capacity to receive" a blessed and sanctified nature.

Terryl L. Givens

#10. Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.

Mike Bickle

#11. Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#12. We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Ruth St. Denis

#13. Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Ann Coulter

#14. You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

Marianne Williamson

#15. When men lie to women, presenting a false self, the terrible price they pay to maintain "power over" us is the loss of their capacity to give and receive love.

Bell Hooks

#16. We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love.

Rollo May

#17. Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

Sri Aurobindo

#18. Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

Dag Hammarskjold

#19. Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#20. It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

Watchman Nee

#21. The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.

Thomas Merton

#22. Money is nothing more than a reflection of your creativity, your capacity to focus, and your ability to add value and receive back.

Anthony Robbins

#23. What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's openly?

Wim Wenders

#24. They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

Norm MacDonald

#25. During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

Elizabeth Of The Trinity