Quotes about Response

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

Until you respond to God by faith, you do not receive from Him, because God is a faith-God.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud crySuch as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"To "What-you-may-call-um!" or?"What-was-his-name!"But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

You may not be able to control other people . . . but you can control how you react to them and their actions. This is an easy thing to say but much more difficult to do.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

If we do not respond to human affection we cannot be loved by God in the way in which He has willed to love us—with the Heart of the Man, Jesus Who is God, the Son of God, and the anointed Christ.

My life is a listening, His is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence, my silence is my salvation.