Before You Hit Send Quotes

“Feelings can be real but fickle...When we speak based on facts, not on our feelings alone, we temper and restrict our comments before hitting send...[G]ood communicators confirm their feelings with facts.”
― Emerson Eggerichs, Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache and Heartache

“remember Jesus’ warning about “every careless word that people speak.” Every word from your mouth counts. Every last one. According to our loving Lord, there is no backspace button in life.”
― Emerson Eggerichs, Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache and Heartache

“lack of self-control, unforgiveness, selfishness, pride, deceit, laziness, and lack of faith.”
― Emerson Eggerichs, Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache and Heartache

“Letting envy create nasty and complaining communications will not lead to a rescue from those who read what we write or hear what we speak. Instead, they’ll hit delete on our e-mails and cross to the other side when they see us on the street.”
― Emerson Eggerichs, Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache and Heartache

“When we conclude the other person needs the light of the truth, and we can speak it lovingly, respectfully, and coherently, then we ought to communicate it. We must speak up for the sake of the truth and for the sake of the other person.”
― Emerson Eggerichs, Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache and Heartache

“You should talk to God about others before you talk to others about God. Ask Him for discernment about whether what you want to say is necessary.”
― Emerson Eggerichs, Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache and Heartache