Top 100 Receive It Quotes
#1. I am losing my great, dissolving, disintegrating pity for others, in which I saw deflected the compassion I wanted for myself. I no longer give compassion, which means I no longer need to receive it.
Anais Nin
#2. By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it
Wallace D. Wattles
#3. Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.
Joe Miller
#4. Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
-Louis Pasteur
Mitch Kynock
#5. When we think we have things already figured out, we're not teachable. Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it.
Marianne Williamson
#6. They could spend their time hunting demons and copulating, and everything would be perfect.
"You really don't ask much out of life, do you?"
And yet I still do not receive it.
Jordan L. Hawk
#7. What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.
Thomas Of Villanova
#8. I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.
Marianne Williamson
#9. Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#10. Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
Leonard Cohen
#11. Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!
Rhonda Byrne
#12. I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
Ed Balls
#13. When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
Baron De Montesquieu
#14. If we throw judgments out, that is exactly what will return to us. What we give is exactly what we will receive. It doesn't matter if we throw out good or bad. It all comes back. It is a spiritual law.
Sandra M. Michelle
#16. Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#17. God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
Charles R. Swindoll
#18. God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley
#19. There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.
Napoleon Hill
#20. Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.
Bryan Cranston
#21. If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.
Pope Francis
#22. The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it.
Charles F. Haanel
#23. But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it ... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Roger Sessions
#24. You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.
Biz Stone
#25. It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.
Samuel Johnson
#26. The Universe has gifted us with abundance of everything, whether it's love, happiness or prosperity. We should tap into the higher frequency to receive it.
Hina Hashmi
#27. Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
James Goldsmith
#28. The earlier you intervene, the less likely that people will get defensive. The more real-time and specific your feedback is, the easier it is for people to receive it and learn from it. The
Jonathan Raymond
#29. It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.
Leon Morris
#30. Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.
Publilius Syrus
#31. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.
Will Ferrell
#32. The authority of the Scriptures does not depend on the decision of the church or the individual to validate it. To paraphrase the Westminster Confession, we receive it as the word of God because of what it is, not because of what we make of it.
Michael S. Horton
#33. What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.
Alaric Hutchinson
#34. High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.
Jean De La Bruyere
#35. Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
David Jeremiah
#36. I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.
Wendy Raquel Robinson
#37. God's grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.
David Jeremiah
#38. Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#39. It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive.
Bob Burg
#40. Kindness is everything ... When you receive it and express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. It's life, demystified. A place out of self. Not a waltz, the the whirls within a waltz.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#41. Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.
Bryan Chapell
#42. We see that the law was not reveal to us to put a notion into our heads that we could become righteous by it, but to teach us that we are completely unable to fulfill the law. Then we will know what a sweet message-what a glorious doctrine-the gospel is and move receive it with exuberant joy.
C.F.W. Walther
#43. There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#44. The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#45. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
#46. One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
Adyashanti
#47. I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.
Marjorie M. Liu
#48. We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.
Charles Caleb Colton
#50. The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.
Farrah Gray
#51. Enlightenment is illusive and can only be received by those who ask for it and by those who are worthy to receive it. Only then will you be shown the path.
Robert Palasciano
#52. It is a gift from God. It is breathed into you and, once you receive it, you feel both peace and excitement.
Bruce Van Horn
#53. History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#54. Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?
Paramahansa Yogananda
#55. Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand.
Gene Wolfe
#56. Love is a flower of life - sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom - you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.
Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
#57. These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Frances Wright
#58. Love begets love. If you show it, you will feel it. If you give it, you will receive it.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#59. We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
C.S. Lewis
#60. If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Anne Lamott
#61. The greatest breakthrough's happens in the most difficult of times. Expect, believe and receive it.
Jeanette Coron
#62. When it comes to love, everyone wants to receive it, but at the end of the day, you don't get to receive it until you start to give it. That goes for everything. What you give is what you receive. If you want the drug, you have to give the drug.
Ashton Kutcher
#63. There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.
Marisa De Los Santos
#64. I thought ... their elegance ... lies not so much in their
clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
Alexander Theroux
#65. Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.
Dean Koontz
#66. A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.
Julian Casablancas
#67. Through the kids, I had started to understand more about love and what it was to truly give love and receive it. I learned that there are certain things it's not okay to accept, and that was making me feel powerful and strong.
Jennifer Lopez
#68. There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer [read bond trader] will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on.
Michael Lewis
#69. The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#70. If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.
Wayne Dyer
#71. The tongues of God's people are meant to be set ablaze by the holy fire of heaven, achieving that which glorifies God. But a sanctified mouth is too unnatural to ever be coincidental. If we want it, we need to pursue it regularly and cooperate with God to receive it.
Beth Moore
#72. Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?
Ralph Ellison
#73. Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
Aaron Allston
#74. When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.
Lisa A. Mininni
#75. Approval is overrated ... Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
Gregory Maguire
#76. A "no" from God really is a "no." It is not a "yes" cached in a "wait" or something like that. In fact...a "no" is quite a useful answer in the growth process if we receive it honestly.
Thomas R. Hauff
#77. Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.
Helen Prejean
#78. Nowadays when we bow our heads before meals, we no longer say grace - we receive it.
Jared Brock
#79. Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.
Richard J. Foster
#80. Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.
Leo J. O'Donovan
#81. I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn't ripe enough in years to receive it properly.
Frank Wedekind
#82. Advice is the easiest thing to give and often the hardest thing to receive. When you need it, and others are willing to give it, take as much as you can. When you receive it, appreciate it, use it, and apply what works for your situation ... .
James A. Murphy
#83. If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? ... Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.
Ambrose
#84. There can be as much joy of giving pleasure as to receive it.
Marina Anderson
#85. The answers to our prayers may not come dramatically, but we must find quiet moments to seek greater light and truth. And when we receive it, it is our responsibility to live it, to share it, and to defend it.
Cheryl A. Esplin
#86. I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.
Thomas Hobbes
#87. What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.
John Webster
#88. I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
Saint Ignatius
#89. Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith, believing that ye shall receive in the name of Christ, ye shall receive it.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#90. God's unconditional love is a very difficult concept for people to accept because, in the world, there's always payment for everything we receive. It's just how things work here. But God is not like people!
Joyce Meyer
#91. I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too ... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.'
Mitch Hedberg
#92. I have a lot of love to give, and when I give that love and others are able to receive it and show me their vulnerability, I believe that God inhabits that space, which means I basically hang out with God a lot, and that's why I feel hopeful.
Ashley Judd
#93. I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.
Tama Janowitz
#94. If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church to Paradise, we learn that men can receive her Baptism even outside her fold, but that out there no one can receive or keep the salvation of the blessed.
Thomas Aquinas
#95. Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds
John Stuart Mill
#96. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
#97. I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift ... for those who are willing to receive it.
Ace Frehley
#98. Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.
Thomas Hardy
#99. Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.
Saint John Chrysostom
#100. Love is the only asset, when you give it away you feel happy and when you receive it back you feel happy.
Debasish Mridha
