Quotes about Response

If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.

ancient thought forms of oppression and domination have reappeared among us. And we, like generations before us, are called upon to respond.

Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

The truth is, righteous anger is the right response to sin and far more consistent with God's character than faking happiness, approval, or acceptance.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus' response was simply "Love God, love people." He named a fundamentally different way of identifying who are the children of God: "Do they love God, and do they love the people who mean so much to him?

So I arrive at this definition of gratitude. Gratitude is a species of joy which arises in your heart in response to the goodwill of someone who does or tries to do you a favor.

Satan . . . afflicted Job with loathsome sores," Job's response was, "Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?