Receiving Quotes - Page 27

• The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

  Tony Campolo

  Blessing, Grace, Knows

  "I’m the Older Brother" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

  Charles Babbage

  Venture, Importance, Discussion

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

  Edward Bernays

  Real, Democracy, Doe

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Guests, Things To Do

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• Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

  Justin Cronin

  Believe, Character, Forgiving

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• Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Writing, Heart, Reality

  Interview with Kevin Murphy, www.oregonlive.com. July 2, 2009.

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• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  R. Lee Ermey

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Space, Body

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.331, GENERAL PRESS

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• No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Ghost, Revelations

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• Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Men, Baptized In

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• Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

  Armstrong Williams

  Children, Work, Hero

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• There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

  Richard Steele

  Praise, Pleasure, Praiseworthy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.94

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• Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Acceptance, Sea, Parent

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• Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world.

  Janet Lembke

  Acceptance, Water, Skins

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• As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the whole thing. Anyway, our enemies had by now adopted our methods and as they became increasingly successful in this mode of warfare we were no longer exclusively the aggressors, but found ourselves more and more at the receiving end.

  Otto Hahn

  War, Successful, Mind

  Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

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• It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

  Shawn Fanning

  Beta, Stage, Server

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 03, 2000.

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• I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.

  Brian Wong

  Marketing, Rewards, Increase

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• NO NEUTRALS IN HEAVEN. There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan. Every man had his agency there, and men receive rewards here based upon their actions there, just as they will receive rewards hereafter for deeds done in the body. The Negro, evidently, is receiving the reward he merits

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  War, Men, Agency

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• Confidence is something that has developed over time which is a very positive thing to gain. Respect is also very important, both giving it and receiving it from other drivers in your team.

  Liz Halliday

  Team, Giving, Important

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Pain, Hands

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.525

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• As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

  Larry Hagman

  Cancer, Dallas, Want

  "Larry Hagman Returns to His Old 'Dallas' Stomping Grounds" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

  John Taylor

  Men, Dignity, Needed

  John Taylor (2018). “An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”, p.130, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Appreciate, Attention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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