Quotes about Reception

Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

Nevertheless, listen now to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

As you enter the home, greet its occupants.

He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.

“Not everyone can accept this word,” He replied, “but only those to whom it has been given.

Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”