You can’t train them to express their anger in mature ways simply by getting upset at them and forcing them to stop venting their anger.
A true friend cares more about what is right than about pleasing you.
One way to express love emotionally is to use words that build up. Solomon, author of the ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, “The tongue has the power of life and death.”2 Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other. Solomon further noted, “An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
Your emotional love language and the language of your spouse may be as different as Chinese from English.
The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love. It is a fact, however, that when we receive afirming words we are far more likely to be motivated to reciprocate.
True Christianity does more than feel empathy for those in need. True Christianity meets that need. – James Stuart Bell –.
Love is the most important word in the English language – and the most confusing.
GET TOUGH. Mental and spiritual toughness go together. Deepen your commitment to your most essential values and mentally rehearse the specific ways you can take positive action.
I’m now much less of an asset to the company than I could be. I keep my head down and for self-preservation just do my work with little conversation with anyone. Yet the irony is this: in my self-preservation, I’m actually destroying myself. In bottling up my unexpressed feelings, I’m making myself sick emotionally and physically.
Valentine’s Day is a day to be expressive and grateful to the one you love. – James Stuart Bell –.
The ones we love often don’t need our judgment – they need our prayers. – Dianne Fraser –.
When an action does not come naturally to you it is a greater expression of love.
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. – Galatians 5:22–23.
Show me your unfailing love in wonderful ways. – Psalm 17:7.
As children get older, we tend to condemn them for their failures rather then commend them for their success.
Never underestimate the value of the ministry you have in the place where God has called you – even if it’s “only” among your family and friends. – Jenni Davenport –.
In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all. – Isaiah 11:6.
It is the mistaken idea that if I reward mediocrity, I will curtail the person’s aspirations to be better. That is a commonly held myth that keeps some parents from verbally affirming children. Of course, it’s untrue.
Often little blessings bring big benefits. – Caitlin M. Vukorpa.
If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? – Matthew 18:12 niv.