Quotes about Response

I believe all suffering contains at least the opportunity for good," came his response, "but not everyone actualizes that potential. Not all of us learn and benefit from suffering; that's where free will comes in. One prisoner in a concentration camp will react quite differently from another, because of the choice each one makes to respond to the environment.

Richard Rogers was lecturing at Wethersfield, Essex, someone told him, "Mr. Rogers, I like you and your company very well, but you are so precise." To which Rogers replied, "O Sir, I serve a precise God.

The one elementary but elemental factor in all civilizations that collapsed into extinction is the failure to read the handwriting on the wall, the failure to respond to warning signs. Every extinct culture hurled signs high into the heavens for all to see. But every collapsing culture failed to read and heed these flares.52

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.

Our first response when angered should be to turn away momentarily, mentally or physically, so we can separate the offense from the offender.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.