Quotes about Response

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

admire the ingenuity that goes into this but I am not at all convinced that such people have quite got the right end of the stick. Does God really want us to know, in exact detail, ancient Babylonian history? I suspect not. But I am confident that God does want us to know how people in circumstances of acute displacement, living with the fear and the anxiety of a persecuted minority, responded to a hostile state and a pagan power.

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.

You can't control what people do; you can't control what they say. But you can control how you respond. My message is very simple; quit giving away your joy. Quit letting the same people upset you. Quit letting the things that don't work out frustrate you.