Quotes about Response

The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.

The problem is that you are taking it too personal. Step back for a moment. Don't focus on these people personally. Forget they even have names. Don't think of it as you versus them. Just realize that they represent the negativity that will always be around you. The important thing is to know how to deal with the negativity and what to do with it.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

She always harboured my criticism: it was only praise that slid from her like the snow.

Is this what you're trying to tell me?" "Is this the point you're making to me today?" "Is this what you want me to get from this conversation?" "Is this what you want me to do after we're done talking?" "Is this how I need to respond?" "Is there anything else I need to know about this?

She was positively unable to reply to Annetta's

Christians crawled out of the woodwork when crisis hit... Christians weren't roaches.

The Call to Discipleship And as he passed by he saw Levi, the son of Alpæus, sitting at the place of toll, and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. (Mark 2.14) THE CALL goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus. How could the call immediately evoke obedience?

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."