#receives

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

#impressions #like #longest #mind #ones

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. ↗

— George Ade

#feels #important #man #more #never

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. ↗

— William Ames

#church #continual #direction #god #means

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. ↗

— Jose Marti

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#cross #doubt #interpretation #new #new testament

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#how #knows #most #person #receives