And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, whenye departoutofthat house orcity, shake off the dust of your feet.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:14.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 20:35.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

-Franklin, Benjamin
Attributed prayer, traditionally known as the'Prayer of St Francis'.

Welfare is hated by those who administer it; mistrusted by those who pay for it; and held in contempt by those who receive it.

-Goldmark, Peter Carl,Jr
  In the NewYork Times, 24 May.

An odd thought strikes me:öwe shall receive no letters in the grave.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, Dec. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied.It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author's skill to give as on ours to receive.

-Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'
  Inaugural lecture as Professor of English at Cambridge University.