Quotes About Communication

If I gossip or engage in ungodly conflict, I harm the gift God has given. But if I am willing to pursue, forgive, and serve, I demonstrate care for these gifts.

I'm not happy with the way I talk to my children. I try to say the right thing, but I always end up blowing it.

Do people regularly feel bruised in their relationship with you?

But he is asking us to own the connection between our thoughts, desires, and words.

You are either speaking as a mini-king, seeking to establish your will in your relationships and circumstances; or you are speaking as an ambassador, seeking to be part of what the King is doing. There

it's about speaking with a biblical agenda. If

I want all of our talk to be redemptively constructive, from the most mundane details to the huge life decisions.

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

Ambassadorial communication

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.

frustrated relationship

What you are about to read is a book on relationship that was written in relationship.

However, problems arose when we, as two leaders who had known each other only from a safe distance, began working together in the same room!

You see, this is what you always do. I come to you and you turn the table on me. You are so good at making other people feel guilty for your failures!

What sins and weaknesses in the other person do you need to consider as you decide what your next move will be? In

Your answers to these basic questions can show you how your family shaped your views on relating to others.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Blowing up at people when our agendas are trampled

Christ reveals that the what and the why are shaped by the heart. Therefore, if we hope to transform the way we talk with one another, the heart must change first.

If you want to enjoy any progress or blessing in your relationships, it will require you to admit your sin humbly and commit yourself to the work they require.

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.

Why bother with other people?

Whoever said violence never solved anything doesn't know what he's talking about. Violence is the only language some people understand. Not that I'm fluent, but I know enough to get by.