Speak The Truth In Love Quotes

#1. We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

Margaret Guenther

#2. My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.

Shane Claiborne

#3. The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

Neil T. Anderson

#4. We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" - with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

Asahel Nettleton

#5. Truth is never wrong but it is in the telling of the truth that a person can be right or wrong
Truth can be told so that it helps or hurts another, Therefore speak the truth in love ... Our words Should b a blend of truth and love ...

Tanu Reshma B Singh

#6. It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener

Dave Burchett

#7. In all your dealings with one another, speak the truth in love, that you may grow up.

Anonymous

#8. The truth actually lies mostly in three words - God bless you, I love you, I adore you, I trust you, I believe you, I mistrust you, and finally God curse you, I hate you and talak talak talak. Only the frauds and politicians speak beyond the three truthful words.

Amit Abraham

#9. I'd be lying if I said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in.

Rupi Kaur

#10. The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

Edward Abbey

#11. O God my Truth, make me one with You in eternal love. Often I become weary with reading and hearing many things. You are all that I want and desire. Let all teachers be mute and all creation keep silence before You. Speak to me, You, and You alone.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

Jack Kornfield

#13. May the way I look at you, the way I speak with you, and the way I treat you reflect the truth that ... I have loved you since forever.

Steve Maraboli

#14. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

Erica Jong

#15. Here's a good test to know whether or not truth-telling springs from love. Truth will not only pain those who hear it; it will pain those who speak it. If we don't love someone, it won't hurt at all to speak truth. We'll tell them what we think with no regard for their feelings. If

Philip Gulley

#16. What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak,
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. (2.2.17-19)

William Shakespeare

#17. I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

Tracy Morgan

#18. And, Father, most of all, you taught
Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught
Can thwart, and that it moves where truth
And courage speak, and neither youth
Nor age can hinder its success,
But only fear and quietness.

John Piper

#19. Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

David Duchovny

#21. Breathe and Be Reborn
Into the Lightness
Of your Heart and Inner Truths.
Speak ...
in the Silence of Dreams,
Knowing the words
Bring the peace into your Soul.
Radiant the Love that is your True Self
and Again ...
Be Reborn.

Jennifer Hillman

#22. Theo nodded slowly. "You love Balanchine chocolate like I love cacao."
"I wouldn't say love, Theo."
"No, you speak the truth. Love isn't right. It isn't right for me either. Sometimes I hate cacao." Theo looked at me. "You don't love Balanchine chocolate. You are Balanchine chocolate.

Gabrielle Zevin

#23. Words matter. Artists love to trot out the tired line, "My work speaks for itself," but the truth is, our work doesn't speak for itself.

Austin Kleon

#24. God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.

Joseph Fort Newton

#25. To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#27. To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

Fulton J. Sheen

#28. You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#29. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

#30. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

#31. Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

Michael Bassey

#32. Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#33. Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.

Brandi L. Bates

#34. Speak with your heart when you speak love.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.

Pope Benedict XVI

#36. A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.

Elizabeth George

#37. Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.

Balian Of Ibelin

#38. Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.

Charlotte Sophia Kasl

#39. Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

Sue Monk Kidd

#40. To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

John Lancaster Spalding

#41. This morning I woke up, how blessed I am
Eyes to see, a voice to speak
Words to read and love to feel?
If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is.

Nikki Rowe

#42. If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Jodi Picoult

#43. If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.

Julieanne O'Connor

#44. Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.

Sathya Sai Baba

#45. Before you speak, think if what you intend to say catches in one of the three sieves:
1. The sieve of truth
2. The sieve of love
3. The sieve of necessity

Socrates

#46. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Miguel Ruiz

#47. The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Cornel West

#48. Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

Hunter S. Thompson

#49. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Donella Meadows

#50. Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.

Caroline Manzo

#51. When you start speaking the "TRUTH" it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression.

Henry Johnson Jr

#52. For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.

Henry David Thoreau

#53. Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#54. O God, You Who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. I am often wearied
by the many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. Let the learned be still, let all
creatures be silent before You; You alone speak to me.

Thomas A Kempis

#55. when people know you love and care about them, you can speak difficult truth and they will receive it.

Jim Cymbala

#56. The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard

Henry David Thoreau