even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.
God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.
The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.
Spiritual perceptiveness is a human trait like the ability to appreciate music. It varies from low to high. At the extremes, some people are tone deaf. But even short of that, some people listen to great music without being able to appreciate its true power and emotion no matter how hard they try. The same is true of spirituality.
Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation.
The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.
During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.
