Quotes about Response

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.

Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.

Smooth move, Ex-lax," I heard Art3mis say.

You're welcome.

My identity does not begin when I begin to understand myself. There is something previous to what I think about myself, and it is what God thinks of me. That means that everything I think and feel is by nature a response, and the one to whom I respond is God. I never speak the first word. I never make the first move.

The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.

We can decide to live in response to the abundance of God and not under the dictatorship of our own poor needs.