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Tag Archives: communication
Adjectives and (Sometimes) the Problem of Truth
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the truth.” -Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
A Quiet Word
“it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.” -Minny character from Kathryn Stockett’s The Help
How To Make Truth into Untruth
“Truth that is not spoken in love ceases to be truth because it becomes distorted by human impatience, bitterness, and anger.” -Paul Tripp, War of Words
Silence
” be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What the Tongue Does
“The tongue exists to reveal our hearts.” -John Calvin
Gossip Hurts Three People
“Tale-bearing [i.e. gossiping] emits a threefold poison, for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told. Whether the report be true or false, we are by [a] precept of God’s Word forbidden to spread it.” -Charles Spurgeon
