Quotes About Response

No church program, religious event, political effort, or humanitarian cause can trump the awesome power of what God can do in response to the prayers of His people.

When you choose to be patient, you respond in a positive way to a negative situation. You are slow to anger. You choose to have a long fuse instead of a quick temper. Rather than being restless and demanding, love helps you settle down and begin extending mercy to those around you. Patience brings an internal calm during an external storm.

Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.

I did not recognise the man at the door and, in split-second time, I pointed the barrel of the fearsome looking weapon to the downstairs living room window, blew that out and then levelled it at the bedroom window above, and blew that out. The owner of the property literally shit his pants and slammed the door.

It does not so matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: Get the Habit of Being Ready , October 20, 1917

Jesus will upset every apple cart, every temple table, every surface response, every false motivation and every private longing we ignore in our hearts. The ways of Jesus will make us examine every area of our lives.

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

I'm going to get hammered away for asking these questions. Fine. Hammer away. But don't pretend that's the same as answering.

I think we should use some other greeting. Something like 'what the fuck?" "Okay," I said, "What the fuck?" "Exactly. Right on. I love you.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you.

Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door.

the love of God the Father" can either mean God's love to us or our love to God. John Wesley wanted the early Methodists to read it both ways, first receiving God's love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, and then responding to that love by enacting the two great commandments.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

Change comes in every person's life. You can either react to it or you can participate in it.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

05/13/92 Calvin answers the phone by saying they can't come to the phone. He says to leave a message at the click. He hangs up the phone. CLICK! 12,76