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Receive Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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.
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
- God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
- Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the…
- The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
- You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.
- I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I…
- And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came…
- We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty…
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
- 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…
- Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched,…
More Receive Quotes
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what… — Bob Beauprez
- There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. — Joseph Addison
- One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in… — Judy Biggert
- Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from… — Erma Bombeck
- The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton
- The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,… — Leo Buscaglia
- All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. — Alexis Carrel