I don’t know a single person who needs to be convinced about the importance of politics, or the perks of power. People need Jesus.
Speech
Speak softly and carry a big stick
You can rage yourself into exhaustion or whisper a warning, but the performance you can expect will always depend on the standards you enforce.
Confess and Prosper
Appearances are deceiving. What is concealed is eventually revealed, and your sum total will be a loss of trust.
Wait before you litigate
It’s going to get awkward if you assume your neighbor is burying a body when he’s preparing to plant some geraniums.
Have you heard the other side?
Our challenge, in a universe of digital perspectives, is not a quantity of sources, but allowing both sides their day in court.
The crown jewel of saying less
The uncomfortable reality is that oftentimes when we open our mouth, people are worse off than if we had said nothing
Your speech is about experience, not skill
Real life, especially your closest relationships, are messy, rapid-fire, and reactionary.
The people who say just the right thing
A wicked person doesn’t set out to be a tornado of obtuseness. On the contrary, they believe they serve as universal benefactors, dropping pearls of wisdom on whoever is fortunate enough to pass by their cloud of blessing.
Truth by Consensus
By tethering absolute truth to the foresail of consensus, we have not thereby matured beyond the chaos of relativism. Rather, we are resigning ourselves to perpetual uncertainty – a life driven and tossed by the wind.
Should we stop people from saying mean things?
The real issue is that people are mean, and they say mean things, and that hurts.
When you argue with a fool, you are wasting your time
A fool is always right in his own eyes. He is not interested in learning something new. He is not interested in being challenged. He is not interested in growing. Why should he be? He has already arrived.
