The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.
It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we become disconnected from the process altogether that we should begin to worry.
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.
Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.
Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way.
From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.
One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.
We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.
This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.