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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Language as Art

Most of us would hesitate to call the kind of writing we do "art." ... There are indeed times, indeed most times are these, when we do use language ...

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Experience--Not Language

Christianity is not, and never has been, about finding the right combination of words! It is about encountering the living and loving God.

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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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Table-Talk Forbidden

Augustine encouraged conversation at meals--but with a strictly enforced rule that the character of an absent person should never be negatively discussed. ...

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The Top 10 "Last Words in Your Church"

Pastoral lines you may not be around long enough to regret

Sometimes words have to be eaten. Other times, they turn out to have teeth that bite. From an ...

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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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