Quotes about Response

isn't the problems that determine our destiny. It's how we respond.

God is more interested in our response than He is in the tangible results.

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.

Suffering in and of itself does not lead a person into a deeper relationship with God. As with those who hear the word of God yet do not respond to it with faith, suffering divorced from faith and hope will actually embitter us as our hearts grow harder rather than softer toward God. In other words, suffering will either make us run to God or away from Him. In the midst of trials, we must ask ourselves, "Is this trial making me bitter and callous, or is it making me loving and gentle?

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

We have to use instead of the weapon of criticism, the criticism of weapons.

CHOOSE TO TRUST GOD IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE You cannot control everything that happens to you. In fact, most of what happens around you is completely out of your control. But you do have control over two important factors: You control your response, and you control how much you choose to trust God, regardless of your circumstances.

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.

How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

right isn't even the best way to think about the Bible. How about dancing? You dance with it. And to dance, you have to hear its music. And then you move in response to it.

How we respond to what happens to us—especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over—is a creative