(1662 quotes found)
“Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.”
Carolyn Wells
“Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind”
Robertson Davies
“There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are”
Joseph Joubert
“For a guy that doesn't complain, that works extremely hard and really never receives credit for the things that he does for this team ... it's tough. We've all been injured, but this kind of an injury, with surgery -- you never know what can happen afterwards.”
Donovan McNabb
“It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.”
Bill Cosby
“The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops”
Bible
“Indeed, were the Sacrament never carried about, it could never be received by the faithful.”
Garth Moore
“A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.”
William Law
“It is in the familiar structure of the Mass itself that a Catholic not only encounters but finds himself received into the very gospel itself, day by day, year after year... the entire liturgy is a seamless gospel fabric, so to speak. It is the gospel, in public, ceremonial, ritual, explicit form.”
Thomas Howard