Quotes about Receiving

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

Today, and everyday, I give that which I want to receive.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

God's gifts aim at making us into generous givers, not just fortunate receivers. God gives so that we, in human measure, can be givers too.

To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.

God acts differently. God continues to give, refusing to make giving dependent on our receiving things rightly.

The Divine Economy is automatic and very simple: we receive only that which we give.

What! Giving again?" I ask in dismay. "And must I keep giving and giving away?" "Oh no," said the angel looking me through, "Just keep giving till the Master stops giving to you!

It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the Spirit of Christ, the more perfectly we are able to love them: and the more we love them the more we receive the Spirit. It is clear, however, that since we love them by the Spirit Who is given to us by Jesus, it is Jesus Himself Who loves them in us.