Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

“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)

“Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:15.

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“Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)