We Receive Quotes
182 quotes by 152 authors
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For it is in giving that we receive.
— Francis of Assisi
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
— Joseph Addison
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went…
— Erma Bombeck
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of…
— John Vianney
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O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be…
— Francis of Assisi
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We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages…
— Jacob Bronowski
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often…
— Jennifer James
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
— Elbert Hubbard
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It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with Him…
— Thomas Case
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O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament with proper dispositions,…
— Louis of Granada
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Humility and gratitude go hand in hand... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn,…
— Sivananda Radha Saraswati
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Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word…
— Justin Martyr
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Like Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the…
— Mother Teresa
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the…
— Augustus William Hare
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
— E. M. Forster
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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to…
— John Vianney
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