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1 " We may not control a situation, but we can control our responses and actions. "
2 " We underestimate the power of our own mind – for both good and bad. If we can learn to control our mindset and our responses to the adverse things in our lives, we can absolutely control our own destiny. "
3 " No one else “makes” us do anything. They can’t make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions. "
― Cathy Burnham Martin , The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
4 " In German one of the terms for imagination is the compound word Einbildungskraft: literally, the " power ( Kraft)" of " forming ( Bildung)" into " one (Ein)." Here I want us to reflect about faith as a kind of imagination. Faith forms a way of seeing our everyday life in relation to holistic images of what we may call the ultimate environment. Human action always involves responses and initiatives. We shape our action ( our responses and initiatives) in accordance with what we see to be going on. We seek to fit our actions into, or oppose them to , larger patterns of action and meaning. Faith, in its binding us to centers of value and power and in its triadic joining of us into communities of shared trusts and loyalties, gives forms and content to our imaging of an ultimate environment. "
5 " God Is Love But For This Love To Be Real To Us Depends Largely On Our Responses and Reactions to Him. "
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu , The Best Option
6 " a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
7 " A steady exposure to distant human need that is beyond our personal response can gradually inoculate us against particular action. . . Isolation from local need, and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best.We need to find or create contemporary equivalents of the city gate, community rituals, and small group meetings in which we can build preliminary relations with strangers. "
