If you can
not speak truth in a loving way, then it is not true.
Not exact matches
Those who claim to «
speak the
truth in love» but actually berate people do
not have the Holy Spirit.
For instance
in Ephesians 4:15 Paul doesn't tell us to
speak the
truth or to
speak in love, but to
speak the
truth in love.
I want to be known as one who
speaks life,
not death; who empowers and affirm and
speaks even the hard
truth in love and invitation.
I have followed her for several years now, and what I
love most about her work is the quiet strength with which she goes about it, the way
in which she proves you don't have to
speak in anger to
speak a hard
truth.
Therefore, is it
not done to defend the
truth, for
truth must be
spoken in love, and there is no fear
in love.
The Christian life is
not about tolerance... but
truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must
love the sinner but
not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and
speak the
truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can
not do that
in this society
in the midst of moral decay.
We can
speak the
truth in Love and
NOT waiver on what God said about this issue.
I do try (but do
not always succeed) to
speak the «
truth in love.»
The
Truth spoken in love is
not hate.
Speaking the
truth in love is
not practiced nearly enough by those of us
in the church.
And even
in love it may alienate someone but if we are
speaking the
truth of God's word and do it
in a
loving way we can
not be held accountable for it offending someone.
Every time I hear someone say «
speak the
truth in love», they think that gives them the right to say whatever they please, and it is
n - e-v-e-r
loving.
It's important to «
speak the
truth,» but we can't forget about the «
in love» part (Ephesians 4:15).
Over the centuries Christians have seized on the cross as their central symbol,
not by accident but because Christian insight has understood that it is
in the one who
loved us and gave himself for us that the
truth about God and humankind is
spoken; and that this
loving and giving were consummated on Calvary.
To «
speak the
truth in love» (4:15) is
not one way (among others) to
speak the
truth;
speaking is
not truthful if it does
not also «build up» and «give grace.»
There is no «rock and a hard place» set of choices here for Christians, nor is there any
in Nigeria and Uganda on the front of basic human rights that Christians themselves helped define and defend: We are called to
speak the
truth in love, to oppose what is wrong, and to do so whether or
not it is culturally comfortable or politically secure.
When it comes to
speaking the
truth in love, what matters is
not how you think you are
speaking.
So, when we
speak about God's
love for the stranger, it is
not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking
truth that is rooted
in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.
When we
speak about God's
love for the stranger, it is
not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking
truth that is rooted
in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.
I'll still
speak the
truth in love —
not fearing losing numbers or income.
Perhaps this kind of reaction is become a pet peeve of mine, because it seems that every time the
truth is
spoken in love there is a knee - jerk response,
not to refute the arguments (which would be a perfectly legitimate response), but to demonize the speaker as «hateful», etc..
«There is real and genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced of a
truth, or of what he holds to be a
truth, and when he at the same time recognizes the right of those who deny this
truth to exist, and to contradict him, and to
speak their own mind,
not because they are free from
truth but because they seek
truth in their own way, and because he respects
in them human nature and human dignity and those very resources and living springs of the intellect and of conscience which make them potentially capable of attaining the
truth he
loves, if someday they happen to see it.
If
truth can
not be
spoken in love, then it is
not truth.
I think
speaking the
truth in love, learning to laugh at situations we can
not change and being free to laugh at ourselves are all healthy responses.
But now we are
in the same room and can
speak truth to each other, but
truth that is
spoken with a deep sense of
love for the other,
not as a thing, a Primate, but as a person,
loved by God whatever their faults.
Im quiet humble pearson shy at the same time, i
love people, i have a 3 year old son, i was raise
in christian home, honest
speaks the
truth, don't like secrets.
i am very simple man and I could never tell anyone I
love One thing about myself is that I share from my heart.I will
not say things I don't mean, especially
in a relationship but I also have had to learn how to be assertive and
speak the
truth in love not be so scared and shy, worrying about what s...
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