Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
Max LucadoRead
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.
Interpretation
Conflict may arise in life, but how we respond to it is up to us.
This quote by Max Lucado emphasizes the distinction between the unavoidable presence of conflict in our lives and the choices we make regarding how to engage with that conflict. While disagreements and challenges are a natural part of human interactions, the decision to fight, argue, or escalate situations is entirely optional and can be approached with a more thoughtful and peaceful mindset.
In practice
In a workplace seminar, to illustrate conflict resolution skills.
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! _x000D_ But it means that they have the ability to deal with it
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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