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Receiving Quotes - Page 2

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

Paul Hindemith (1969). “A composer's world, horizons and limitations”

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.132, Lulu.com

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

"A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.22

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 or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

TheBookReport interview, www.bookreporter.com. October 29, 1999.

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.

"To Jumpstart The Economy, Look To Our Youth" by Gerald Chertavian, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.116, Hay House, Inc

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1942). “The nineteen letters of Ben Uziel: being a spiritual presentation of the principles of Judaism”

It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving

Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”