Quotes about Response

True Christlikeness, true companionship with Christ, comes at the point where it is hard not to respond as he would.

But reliance upon what the Spirit does to us or in us, as indispensable as it truly is, will not by itself transform character in its depths. The action of the Spirit must be accompanied by our response, which, as we have seen, cannot be carried out by anyone other than ourselves.

THOSE WITH A WELL-KEPT heart are persons who are prepared for and capable of responding to the situations of life in ways that are good and right.

The situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our "spiritual" side. A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying "Why?

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

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

If a soft answer turneth away wrath, maybe no answer stirreth wrath up.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud crySuch as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"To "What-you-may-call-um!" or?"What-was-his-name!"But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.