Quotes about Receiving

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

This, then, do you consider, and devise how both you yourselves may be saved and this land, and I be not brought into ill odor with the citizens; for I have not absolute sovereignty, as over barbarians; but if I do just things, I shall receive just things.

The lesson God engraved on my heart that day was while I didn't necessarily need the money, she needed to give it. The exchange itself—both the giving and the receiving—illustrates a key characteristic of Christian community. To open-handedly bless others from the riches God has so generously given us and to open-handedly receive blessings from others binds believers together in an interdependent, Jesus-and-others-oriented web of grace.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

John 1:12 says, 'As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.' And the apostle Paul told us in Ephesians, 'By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

What you receive is directly connected to what you believe

Conviction—or the killing work of the law—is the way that leads to Christ, not a condition for receiving Christ.

It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.

When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door.