Quotes about Reception

We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

J. Gresham Machen solemnly warned, False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the Gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation to be controlled by ideas which prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion.1

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.