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.
Not exact matches
As universalists, you may
think I'm naive and wrong, but is there no room
in your heart for compassion and understanding for the Evangelist who
thinks he sees lost people around him and
speaks the
truth in love as he understands it.
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.
This is part of what St. Paul had
in mind, I
think, when he wrote about «
speaking the
truth in love.»
Despite this, Beckett's book remains an important survey and reminder of what
in Western
thought is of value, and why, and demonstrates the
truth articulated by both the Second Vatican Council and Saint Julian: «Whatever has been
spoken aright by any man... belongs to us Christians; for we worship and
love... the Logos which is from the unbegotten and ineffable God... [and] those writers were able, through the seed of the Logos implanted inthem, to see reality darkly» (p. 51).
When it comes to
speaking the
truth in love, what matters is not how you
think you are
speaking.
I
thought that it was preferable to
speak the
truth, even if it hurt, than to withhold the
truth in the name of
love.
I never want to be pushy, but I also
think it is important to «
speak the
truth in love.»