Quotes about Understanding

Every day your words give your relationships their tone. Every day you tell people what you think of them, what you want from them, and what you would like to enjoy with them.

Be humble, gentle, patient, and forbearing in love

Humility enables us to see our own sin before we focus on the sin and weaknesses of another.

Do people regularly feel bruised in their relationship with you?

The words of an ambassador are always other-centered. Consider the problem ("according to their needs")

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

The Bible is the only reliable source for these life-interpreting facts.

What sins and weaknesses in the other person do you need to consider as you decide what your next move will be? In

When we choose to practice true forgiveness, the relationship is not just brought back to where it was before the offense; it actually moves further down the road to maturity.

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.

Forgiveness has a vertical and a horizontal dimension