A Christian discipleship is simply that alertness and receptivity which hears the knocking and welcomes the Spirit which says: "If any man will but open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Its natural method is rhythmic, intermittent, work alternating with rest, activity and receptivity succeeding one another, the rhythm of life.
Nothing but sincerity and receptivity is demanded.
It helps the receptivity of the heart, the purity of the intellect, and the health of the body.
The response your teaching work met with in Brisbane is truly most encouraging and shows a remarkablereceptivity on the part of the people of Australia to the Divine Message.
The same attitude ofreceptivity to new ideas is pre-requisite to one form of discovery as to the other.
The tendency to instability, to emotional excess, is part of this receptivity which culminates in the state of being "controlled.
Revelation cannot have been final; it must surely be progressive, gradual, fitted to the needs and the receptivity of souls.
Receptivity is the first prerequisite to progressive thinking, and that Thales reached out after and imbibed portions of Oriental wisdom argues in itself for the creative character of his genius.
To the receptivity of several forms, different from those of which matter is susceptible by mechanism, must be added a spontaneity of a cause (which therefore cannot be matter), without which no ground can be assigned for those forms.
If knowledge is a mere receptivity of presentations, God who, as cause of presentations, is active in regard to the act of our knowledge, must not be aware of our presentations.
Criminality in its worst forms is similarly due to a lack of appreciation of orreceptivity to moral ideas.
The fact that A responds sympathetically toward B and C implies the existence in A of an attitude of receptivity and suggestibility toward the sentiments and attitudes of B and C.
He had not been, in fact, so much in love with her, as in that attitude ofreceptivity which invites love.
Mrs. Mann had never possessed anyreceptivity for education.
It is the strength of his Will, and the degree of your Receptivity that makes the demonstration a success.
Mind Reading feats depend upon the degree of Will and Concentration on the part of the Transmitter, and upon the degree of Receptivity and Passivity upon the part of the Receiver.
Grant that a vast picture quelconque had to be made before the details could be made perfect, and a greater richness and receptivity of mind would have resulted in hesitation.
Anything like passive receptivity is foreign to my nature; and there results an unusually small tendency to be affected by others' thoughts.
Conceptions, then, are grounded on the spontaneity of thought, as sensible intuitions on the receptivity of impressions.
The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them.
The ancient philosophers of Greece were awake to the deep-rooted differences between an inland and a maritime city, especially in respect to receptivity of ideas, activity of intellect, and affinity for culture.
When we come to consider the comparative mental receptivity and comprehension of animals under man's tuition, we find the elephant absolutely unsurpassed.
But, as we drew nearer, the great edifice began to assert itself, making us acknowledge it to be larger than our receptivity could take in.
The first is that the individual mind, anterior to experience, is a blank; that at birth there exists nothing but a passive receptivity of impressions, which become organized into intelligence by experience.
If, at birth, there exists nothing but a passivereceptivity of impressions, why is not a horse as educable as a man?
