Quotes about Reception

Now I'm not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaurant menu won't give you nourishment. We've got to engage with what's offered if it's going to do us any good. But putting my heart in a place to receive truth certainly got me going in a different direction.

It is not, we see, of ourselves, that we either know the truth, or love it, or abide in the profession of it. We have nothing of this kind but what we have received. Humility in ourselves, usefulness towards others, and thankfulness unto God, ought to be the effects of this consideration.

Las circunstancias son el medio por el que el alma recibe lo que le corresponde.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver

In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The Tamil audience is more receptive to unusual endings.

Rusbridger's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most defined the Guardian and that, under another sort of steward, might have had a much more sceptical reception.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.