Quotes About Response

Perchance, I would listen. Have you said anything?

Remember, it's not that you fall; it's what you do next that counts.

Real contemplation, in other words, is not for its own sake. It doesn't take us out of reality. On the contrary, it puts us in touch with the world around us by giving us the distance we need to see where we are more clearly. To contemplate the gospel and not respond to the wounded in our own world cannot be contemplation at all. That is prayer used as an excuse for not being Christian. That is spiritual dissipation.

The spiritual life... is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.

Benedictine conversion, then, is not an assertion of our strength or character. Benedictine spirituality is based on the simple acknowledgment that God will come to life before us and be reborn in us in unexpected ways day after day throughout our entire lives. We must be ready to respond to this God of woods and highways, of gentle breeze and cataclysm, of privacy and crowds - however this Spirit comes. Response is the essence of Benedictine spirituality.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

I learned that the Italians are right. It isn't what happens to us that counts. It's what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference

Are you Jesus? people ask us silently every day. And the answer liturgical spirituality forms in us if we live it with constancy, with regularity, with fidelity, is surely, yes.

The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.

True story," Horse chimed in. "Fuck with us, we'll fuck you back. Harder. Always.

I love you." "I know," she replied, using her best Han Solo voice.

Can you read my thoughts?" she asked them. "Are you talking to me?" Lee said. "To all of you. Can you read my thoughts?" "What are you trying to do—get me sent to seclusion?" "Go to hell", Helene said pleasantly. "Don't look at me," Miss Coral said, with the genteel horror of a countess visiting an abattoir, "I can't even read my own.

The way you ask a question chooses its answer.

You look like a crazy person," Adri said. "You look boring and average," Lily replied.

You'd be good at being angry," he said. "You'd get it right.

revisions based on readers' responses, however trying, make things better.

Just 'cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

When frazzled, people tend to revert to the familiar and the well rehearsed.

She enters, and before I can discern her, She stares at me with an attentive eye. "Were you," I ask, "the cause of the Inferno For Dante?" – And she answers: "I.

That relative, that temporal plane -- where sensitivities vary, where no one has the same personal history even if they have the same communal history, where something which is a trigger for one person passes off unnoticed by another person -- definitely was the place where the raw living of life and the imperfect mental response to that raw living took place.

So he made his remarks and felt entitled to make his remarks and I did not speak because I did not know how to respond to this person.

Her jaw ached with tension. "Surely you don't respond to all women who...invite you this way?" "Only strangers who remain anonymous and shrouded from my sight." The snap was still there, astonishing her. Anger was the last reaction she'd expected. "Do you intend to wear your veils when you fuck me, madam?

Did you walk over to No. 3 tonight? It's so very cold and damp out, don't you think? I wonder that anyone would come out on such an evening." Then she winced, as if registering the fact that she was babbling. Lord, she was completely adorable. And his plan must be working because her response to him was quite different than normal. "Yes,