Civil Persuasion

[C]ivility, which I take to be a strong virtue and not simply wimpishness, requires that we not try to cram our beliefs down anybody's throats, whether ...

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Hoping Your Spouse Reads Minds

When Christian musician Michael Card got married in 1982, he and Susan expected smooth sailing. But it wasn't long before they started running into ...

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The Art of Careful Conversation

Be humble and gentle in your conversation; and of few words, I charge you; but always pertinent when you speak.

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The Power of Deeds

Major Osipovich, an air force pilot for the former USSR, planned to give a talk at his children's school about peace. But he would need time off during ...

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A Word Fitly Spoken

I spoke

Words fell

Aimlessly on ears.

Later

One said,

"Your word--

It helped

That Day."

I turned

Wondering--

Forgot I said

That word.

Let me speak

Those ...

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Transcript of the Heart

In commenting on the success of his work The Saints' Everlasting Rest, Baxter said: "And I found that the transcript of the heart hath the greatest ...

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The Offence of Christ

I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offence in it. We cannot blink the fact that gentle ...

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Words, Words, Words

The Bible tells us that the most vital and yet the most difficult thing to master is our words. It is not so much what goes in one ear and comes out the ...

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The Truth Within

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has ...

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What Is Conversation?

When men and women refer to "conversation," they might not be talking about the same thing at all, observes communication theorist Deborah Tannen: ...

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