Quotes About Response

Every time you concede a goal, you don't have to put a hammer to your head.

A soft answer turns away anger.

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

human anger is designed by God to motivate us to take constructive action in the face of wrongdoing or when facing injustice.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. WINSTON CHURCHILL

In processing anger toward someone with whom you have a relationship, two questions are paramount: 1. Is my response positive—does it have the potential for dealing with the wrong and healing the relationship? 2. Is my response loving—is it designed for the benefit of the person at whom I am angry?

Anger, then, is the emotion that arises whenever we encounter what we perceive to be wrong. The emotional, physiological, and cognitive dimensions of anger leap to the front burner of our experience when we encounter injustice.

Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time! —Proverbs 15:23

Our response to change consists of emotions, attitudes, and actions.

Life is full of unanticipated changes. Our only choice as couples is in how we will respond.

Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone. —Colossians 4:6

Restraining our response is not the same as storing our anger. It is refusing to take the action that we typically take when feeling angry.

When we love the Lord and seek Him in the stillness of our hearts, He hears us and answers. — Susan E. Ramsden

The Bible doesn't say it's a sin to be angry, just not to respond in sinful ways or let it control us. — Julie Durham —

I will answer them before they even call to me. While they are still talking about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers! —Isaiah 65:24

All of us experience anger for the reasons noted in earlier chapters. But holding anger inside by denying, withdrawing, and brooding is not the Christian response to anger. In fact, to do so is to violate the clear teachings of Scripture. Bitterness is the result of stored anger, and the Bible warns us against bitterness. (For example, see Acts 8:23; Romans 3:14; Hebrews 12:15.)

An ancient sage once said, "A soft answer turns away anger.

Y)ou didn't want somebody running around smiling and saying, 'We'll get by,' when the house was on fire; you wanted somebody to yell 'fire!

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do, and you must respond as they come.

Interestingly, relatively few of my correspondents were of the variety familiar to most authors, the users of block capitals and red ink.

Nu, nu, do as you must, her patient replied, as if her entire existence was but an endless series of pushbacks and rejections.

But I believe there is no difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

This is what mankind has always wanted... that the environment should respond to human thought. That is the core of magic and the oldest dream of mankind, and, here on me, it is fact.

In this way the one Soul may develop or evolve or express an innumerable variety of ideas: for in response to whatever it meets, the living and active Soul ideates, or gives rise to a representation. Thus