Quotes of: Immediate-response Keyword

Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope that the world can be better than it is. The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe i...

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Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was creat...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You send a text message to someone you really like and you get a response right away you feel happy? You feel happy, the body, it creates th...

Tom Green

Love is a devoted madness while marriage is a responsibility. But then it is possible to be devotedly mad and responsible at the same time, yes it is. And so this is how we should begin to see marriage: as it is, for what it is! Marriage needs to cea...

C. JoyBell C.

Christine Collins: He's not my son! Capt. J.J. Jones: Why are you doing this, Mrs. Collins? Why are you doing this? You seem perfectly capable of taking care of the boy. Your job pays you enough to attend to his personal needs, so I don't understand ...

Changeling

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

The Christmas Sweater

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

The Da Vinci Code

A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman,” said he. “You don’t reconcile friends

Discipline: The Glad Surrender

There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this: I have a responsibility I need to fathom. I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.

Electricity For Beginners

It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Every Day

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Ender's Shadow

[The atonement's] authenticity and value in no way depend on the response of any man, but depend instead on its satisfaction of God and the demands of His righteousness.

Elect in the Son

Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

The Elephant Tree

Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.

Fearlessly Feminine

Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.

Forgive Your Way to Better Health, Greater Productivity, and World Peace

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

The Gift

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

The Great Gatsby

this nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction

The Grapes of Wrath

To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.

How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

Behind the Hospital