Quotes About Dialogue

This is how we interact now, by mouthing off, steering every conversation back to our agendas, skimming the surface of each subject looking for an opportunity to spew.

Aaronow: Yes. I mean are you actually talking about this, or are we just…Moss: No, we're just…Aaronow: We're just "talking" about it.Moss: We're just speaking about it. (Pause.) As an idea.Aaronow: As an idea.Moss: Yes.Aaronow: We're not actually talking about it.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god, either.

The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna.

By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk—just once—in prose like other people.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.