Quotes About Communication

The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.

The basis of prayer is not what it costs us, but what it costs God to enable us to pray.

The reason for prayer is intimacy of relation with our Father.

Remember what makes prayer easy is not our wits or our understanding, but the tremendous agony of God in redemption...Prayer is not what it costs us, but what it cost God to enable us to pray.

Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets, leaving Him no time to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God. But then we find that God wants to get us into an intimate relationship with Himself—to get us in touch with His purposes.

God reveals in John 17 that His purpose is not just to answer our prayers, but that through prayer we might come to discern His mind.

Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him." Then why ask? The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God; prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. If we pray because we want answers, we will get huffed with God. The answers come every time, but not always in the way we expect, and our spiritual huff shows a refusal to identify ourselves with our Lord in prayer; we are here to be living monuments of God's grace.

Have you ever heard the Master say something very difficult to you? If you haven't, I question whether you have ever heard Him say anything at all. Jesus says a tremendous amount to us that we listen to, but do not actually hear.

Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God's Word fit what you have said?

The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn't know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.

God speaks in the language you know best—not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

was ihm auffällt macht er zu worten dazwischen aber ist mangel.

Non indagate le cose a partire dalle parole, ma indagate le parole a partire dalle cose

unhooked telephone": the

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Nobody, except that wise woman, Rosa Bonheur, ever discerned that animals only do not speak because they are endowed with a discretion far and away over that of blatant, bellowing, gossiping, garrulous Man. "Only a dog," indeed I However, the phrase has a pretty, modest, graceful look, so let it stand. Men never are taken at their own valuation by others; and so I suppose dogs cannot expect to be either.

God speaks to those who take time to listen, and He listens to those who take time to pray.

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.