Receptive Quotes

129 Receptive quotes by 109 unique authors

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it… — Martin Buber
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But… — John Cleese
If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties… — Peace Pilgrim
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the… — Luther Burbank
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its… — George Nakashima
People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but… — Henri Nouwen
Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can… — Sangharakshita
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to… — Che Guevara
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. — Hermann Hesse
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us… — Karl Jaspers
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. — Daniel Kahneman
The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense. — Scott Ritter
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience. — Michael Shermer
During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people… — Rick Warren
When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to… — Hermann Hesse
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being… — Alan Watts
Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure . The god's… — Lilith Saintcrow
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and… — Albert Einstein
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. — Fulton J. Sheen
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that… — C.S. Lewis
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open… — Karen Armstrong
He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give… — George MacDonald
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps… — Hermann Hesse
Henry patted Charlotte’s shoulder anxiously. “Would you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?” “You could ride up to Yorkshire and chop… — Cassandra Clare

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