#receives

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

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

#been #curative #even #every #grand

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#another #character #earn #emotional #expression

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ↗

— Martin Luther

#conscience #feelings #lord #more #preaches

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #bounty #manner #part #receives

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

— Publilius Syrus

#how #knows #most #person #receives

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. ↗

— Og Mandino

#art #benefactor #better #crown #does