Quotes about Response
The crowd removed the garments off their backs and spread them in the path of Christ. Let this "throwing" be your first response to bad news. As you sense anxiety welling up inside you, cast it in the direction of Christ. Do so specifically and immediately.
— Max Lucado
In what circumstances do you struggle to trust God's purposes? Do you feel that God is fair in asking for a pure response like Paul's? Why or why not? What keeps you from fully believing that God is a good Father who cares for every detail of your life? Take the time to bring these obstacles before the Lord and pray, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24).
— Max Lucado
We choose our response--rock or sponge? Resist or receive?
— Max Lucado
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one. Fear screams, Get out! Anxiety ponders, What if?
— Max Lucado
Reacting usually does not work. We react too quickly, with too much intensity and urgency. Rarely can we do our best at anything in this state of mind.
— Melody Beattie
Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.
— Melody Beattie
Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act.
— Melody Beattie
Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.
— Beth Moore
Don't You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?" But He kept silent and did not answer anything. Mark 14:60—61
— Beth Moore
When the disciples heard it, they fell facedown and were terrified. Matthew 17:6
— Beth Moore
She never had no comment.
— Beth Moore
Jesus replied to her, " Woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you want." Matthew 15:28
— Beth Moore