Quotes About Communication

You do not really understand the significance of words until you realize that the first words that human ears ever heard were not the words of another human being, but the words of God! The value of every piece of human communication is rooted in the fact that God speaks.

When we speak, it must be with the realization that God has given our words significance. He has ordained for them to be important.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.

The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too.

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people. Truth not spoken in love ceases to be true because it's bent and twisted by other human agendas.

Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. (James 1:19)

When I gossip, I confess the sin of another person to someone who is not involved. Gossip doesn't restrain sin; it encourages it. It doesn't build someone's character; it destroys his reputation.

you and I need to be open and approachable in the midst of our discouragement. We'll never get the help we need if we first demand that people sign on to our view of things before we are willing to open up to them and listen to what they have to say to us.

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent.

So much of our disappointment in relationships is not because we have an unrealistic view of others, but because we have a distorted view of ourselves.

The reconciliation of a marriage must be a lifestyle, not just the response you have when things go bad. Consider

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

asked by his wife whether he wants to have his bowling shoes laced over or laced under, Archie Bunker answers the question: "What's the difference?" Being a reader of sublime simplicity, his wife replies by patiently explaining the difference between lacing over and lacing under, whatever this may be, but provokes only ire. "What's the difference" did not ask for difference but means instead "I don't give a damn what the difference is.

No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.

And if there is one thing I've learned, it's if you don't put it out there, they won't put it in there.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

as a rule, we are all happier when we give activities, like talking to friends, our full attention.