Quotes About Response

The prayer conversation always begins with God. It does not begin with us. Prayer is our response to a divine invitation to encounter. The prayer conversation has already begun because God has already reached out, seeking our attention and response. Until we learn to attend to the God who is already present and communicating, our prayers will never be more than the product of our minds and wills.

This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call it the trump card of the stupid, since (and this is surely one of the tragedies of human existence) it is the one form of stupidity to which it is most difficult to come up with an intelligent response.

Si potrebbe anche dire che una delle tragedie dell'esistenza umana è il fatto che la violenza è una forma di stupidità alla quale è molto difficile replicare con una risposta intelligente.

With the whole world in economic recession, a new approach was called for.

the Church acts immediately.

Three rules for when you are under fire: 1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens. 2) Always be the first to move; don't wait until the situation is clear, because by then it may be too late. 3) Keep moving until you find cover or your out of the fire zone.

Three Rules for When You Are Under Fire: 1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens.

situation is clear, because by then it may be too late. 3) Keep moving until you find cover or you're out of the fire zone.

On average, dopamine receptor density is reduced in the VTA target regions of obese subjects as compared with those lean subjects (a characteristic that can be measured in a brain scanner). But the key question remains: Do obese individuals show reduced dopaminergic activation of VTA target areas in response to food? Is a blunted pleasure response to food involved in obesity?

Martin Hammer in Menzel's group had discovered a unique neuron, called VUMmx1, that responded to sucrose (a type of sugar) with electrical activity but not to an odor; however, after the odor was delivered, followed shortly by the sucrose reward, VUMmx1 would now respond to the odor.

Then Arif was allowed to enter Care Rehabilitation, the Kingdom's response to 9/11, after fifteen of the nineteen hijackers turned out to be Saudis.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

We serve a God who is waiting to hear from you, and He can't wait to respond.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

Until you respond to God by faith, you do not receive from Him, because God is a faith-God.

Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God's voice.

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.

God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit

God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.

Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"