Consider the big picture of what they are saying and always remember that they are the artist of the picture they are painting – not you. So don’t paint it for them.
Quotes
Yes, people will hate you for your beliefs. But they might hate you if you’re a jerk, too.
Christian pro-life advocates aren’t “imposing” their views any more than abolitionist Christians were imposing theirs or the Reverend King was imposing his. Rather, they’re “proposing” them in hopes their fellow citizens will vote them into law. That’s how a constitutional republic like ours works. We’re not looking to establish a theocracy that we impose on non-Christians, only a more just society for the weakest members of the human family.
Narrator: When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just …
Marla Singer: … instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?
Narrator: Yeah. Yeah.
From “Fight Club”
“Do you listen, or do you wait to talk?”
~ Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction