Receiving Quotes

499 quotes by 416 authors

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. — Donald Miller
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be,… — Richard Dawkins
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger… — Kathleen Norris
I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving… — Lisa Kleypas
It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and Iâ€™m sure you understand why.… — Daniel Handler
Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this.… — Stephenie Meyer
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar â€” he seems to forget that he pays me Â£30 per annum for receiving his… — Charlotte Bronte
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision… — Helen Keller
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. — Oscar Wilde
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong,… — Sylvia Plath
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly… — BrenÃ© Brown
The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety… — Carter G. Woodson
Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it… — Justin Cronin
Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one… — Daniel Handler
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and… — Arthur W. Pink
The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the… — Edward Bernays
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness.… — BrenÃ© Brown
Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land… — Bernie Siegel
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. — William Jewett Tucker
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is… — George MacDonald

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