From a blog I read: “…there is a huge, gargantuan difference between speaking the truth in love and loving to speak the truth. When we love to speak the truth it is our opinions, the sound of our own voice, our perception of our own correctness that becomes the object of our affection. This, then, is nothing more than self-love. Speaking the truth in love means that we make the receiver of our message, our conversation partner the object of our care and concern. When this is our focus, I believe we are much more careful, not only what we say, but how we express ourselves in a manner that will best honor and respect the other person.”
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September 13th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Thanks Shannon! I absolutely love that quote! I am definately going to try to make an effort to speak the truth in love. Thanks again!
Dawn
September 14th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
That is a great quote. We all need a reminder to speak in love.
I think we also need to give people the benefit of the doubt that they are speaking in love to us as well. Sometimes we just write people off because we doubt their motives when we don’t like what they have to say. However, we are not perfect, so how we come across is not perfect, even if the motive was love.
-J.B.