Quotes About Communication

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.

As so many people in the Bible did, tell God exactly how you feel.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.

In contrast, the Bible says, "A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense."15 Patience comes from wisdom, and wisdom comes from hearing the perspective of others. Listening says, "I value your opinion, I care about our relationship, and you matter to me." The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.

The essence of love is not what we think or do or provide for others, but how much we give of ourselves. Men, in particular, often don't understand this. Many have said to me, "I don't understand my wife and kids. I provide everything they need. What more could they want?" They want you! Your eyes, your ears, your time, your attention, your presence, your focus

During conflict, it is tempting to complain to a third party rather than courageously speak the truth in love to the person you're upset with. This makes the matter worse. Instead, you should go directly to the person involved.

Imagine if you were asked by your country to be an ambassador to an enemy nation. You would probably have to learn a new language and adapt to some customs and cultural differences in order to be polite and accomplish your mission. As an ambassador you would not be able to isolate yourself from the enemy. To fulfill your mission, you would have to have contact and relate to them.

There is no greater antidepressant than communication and fellowship with God.

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

La oración es la herramienta más importante para tu misión en el mundo. Las personas pueden rechazar nuestro amor y nuestro mensaje, pero no pueden hacer nada contra nuestras oraciones. Igual que un misil transcontinental, puedes apuntar con una oración al corazón de una persona estés a tres metros o a miles de kilómetros de distancia.

He wondered sometimes if it wasn't so much that Tommy and Andy shared a secret as that they liked to make him think they shared a secret. Men never really left the snigger of the schoolyard, they just grew bigger.

I need to talk to you." "People always say that," Hartley said grimly, "but usually what they need is not to talk.

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage

Sylvia was nuts, of course. She'd told Amelia that God (not to mention Joan of Arc) had spoken to her. In the unlikely event of God speaking to anyone, Sylvia did not seem the obvious choice.

Art is anything created by one person and enjoyed by another.

She made 'pig' sound like a much worse word than it was. Pigs were quite nice.

a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.)

The purpose of Art,' his mother, Sylvie, said – instructed even – 'is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself.

People who live on their own do tend to witter. We live without restraint, verbal at any rate.' Nigel