Responding Quotes - Page 6

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Long, Bells, Tables

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We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use to pass on a favorite lasagna recipe. And I was responding with the same enthusiasm a new cook might show. I was simultaneously horrified and impressed with myself.

Janet Evanovich

Might Use, Recipes, Enthusiasm

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Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.

Jean M. Auel

Men, Usual, Too Much

Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.62, Bantam

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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal, Air, Hands

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Worship is love responding to love.

Judson Cornwall

Worship

Judson Cornwall (2013). “Let Us Worship”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.

Erich Fromm

Children, Attitude, Creative

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With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]

Harold Wilson

Struggle, Science, Survival

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Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences, your education, your religion, your parents - which may be dead, but their judgments are being carried by your mind and they will be given as a heritage to your children. Generation after generation, every disease is being transferred as a heritage. Only a non-judgmental mind has intelligence, because it is spontaneously responding to reality.

Rajneesh

Children, Past, Reality

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With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

Rajneesh

Stars, Real, Integrity

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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Seth Godin

Jobs, Believe, People

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A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not.

Hazel Hawke

Commitment, Garden, Way

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Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge, but...is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Jobs, Opportunity, Our Generation

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Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

William Arthur Ward

Worship

William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

T. Berry Brazelton

Children, Father, Reading

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The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Imagine what good we can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us — our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.

M. Russell Ballard

Simple, Profound, Together

"Be Anxiously Engaged" by M. Russell Ballard, www.lds.org. October 2012.

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If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

Hollis Frampton

Fire, Nerves, Neurons

Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

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Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Believe, Civilization, Ifs And

Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are today missionaries on other continents.

Pope Benedict XVI

Joy, Today, Lord

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When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

Luis Palau

Christian, Jesus, Important

Luis Palau (2010). “God Is Relevant: Finding Strength and Peace in Today's World”, p.133, Multnomah

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It makes me so much calmer when I’m responding to e-mails later.

Padmasree Warrior

Mail, Calmer

"Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device" By Matt Richtel, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2012.

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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

Eddie Obeng

Motivation, Inspiration, World

"Why the best thing you can do is fail" By Eddie Obeng, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2012.

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I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

Ian Dunbar

Dog, Motivation, Inspiration

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Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.

Danielle LaPorte

Life, Trust, Opportunity

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If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.

Henry Blackaby

Christian, Talking, Goal

Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2001). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or enhance your life, you will merely be finding more sophisticated ways of responding to circumstances.

Robert Fritz

Choices, Creative, Fundamentals

Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.193, Butterworth-Heinemann

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