Quotes about Receptivity

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

If Satan can get us to interpret our mission task as populating heaven with as many people as possible, we will resort to going only to those places of receptivity and harvest and neglect doing what is needed to reach the unreached and penetrate the dominions of darkness with the light of the gospel.

In whatsoever way any come to Me,In that same way I grant them favor.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Getting out of the way and listening is not something that comes easily, either in art or in prayer.

The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.

The lower and the emptier a man lays himself before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of divine glory.

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.

When God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him.

Those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.