The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
– Joan D Chittister
Related Quotes:
- Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor E Frankl
- Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. – Joan D Chittister
- Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame! – Israelmore Ayivor
- People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people. – Mira Grant
- An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God’s response. – Shannon L Alder
- To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. – Timothy Snyder
- Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people. – Victor Hugo
- Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others… – TaNehisi Coates
- although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6] – Linda Lantieri
- …you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them – either way you have to forgive… – John Geddes
- He’s God….and his grace is a part of him working relentlessly on our behalf…never leaving, never abandoning, never stopping. – Carl Prude Jr
- The simplistic ideas in which the unbeliever ends up believing are his punishment. – Nicols Gmez
- Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed. – James Rozoff
- There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance. – AE Samaan
- There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. – Robin Hobb
- Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream – Jeremy Griffith
- There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time. – Terry Brooks
- There’s something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance. – AE Samaan
- You don’t blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don’t blame others for the shape of your experience. – Gillian Duce
- The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it. – Dominic Riccitello
- The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. – Susan Cooper
- We don’t blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don’t blame others for the shape of your experience. – Gillian Duce
- Dr Adams was following my orders if you want to blame someone blame me -casiusoh i do,I’m just so pissed i had extra left over – Jace – DD Barant
- Love doesn’t measure that way… you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn’t fair to blame me for how you’ve chosen to behave. – Kristin Cashore
- You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems. – Bryant McGill
- When in doubt about who’s to blame. Blame the English. – Craig Ferguson
- When in doubt about who’s to blame. Blame the English. – Craig Ferguson
- Do you know whether or not you are in God’s grace?Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. – Jeanne dArc
- The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death. – Billy Graham
- What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour. – AW Tozer
- The Bible’s message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us. – Dillon Burroughs
- God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion. – Jeanne DAlbret
- When we aren’t curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict. – Kirsten Siggins
- We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence. – Asa Don Brown
- It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world. – Andrew Wommack
- The only spiritual soul can obey’s the spiritual law. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Believe is confident hope.Hope is faith.Faith is timeless possibility.Possibility is spiritual.Spiritual is divine – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Spiritual awakening is not really spiritual at all. – Maria Erving
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. – Young