Receptivity Quotes

• At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Helping
  • Yearning
  • Ingenuity

• If Satan can get us to interpret our mission task as populating heaven with as many people as possible, we will resort to going only to those places of receptivity and harvest and neglect doing what is needed to reach the unreached and penetrate the dominions of darkness with the light of the gospel.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Heaven
  • Reach
  • Mission

• Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Curiosity
  • Impressions
  • Surroundings

• It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.

  

  Charles Brent
  • Moving
  • Christ
  • Humility

• Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Receptivity

• Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

  

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Spirit