graceful communication Quotes

I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

I think one of the things that I carry, and just my goals in life, is just encourage people and make them feel joy and celebrated and they leave feeling like maybe there was stuff talked about that was difficult, but then there was a voice of redemption and grace in the middle of that.