Famous quotes containing the word receive:
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Mark 11:24.
“The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“His word
is withdrawn,
hieratic,
authentic,
a king’s,
yet all may receive it.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)