Quotes about Communication

Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.

Essential prayer is conversational.

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results.

Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.

Many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

They fear exposure, fear being seen as weak. That's why other men would rather work late than come home and talk to their wives or their children. They know what to do at work; they don't know what to do in their most important relationships.

Pressure nearly always guarantees you will have a hard time discerning what God is saying, if you hear anything at all.

Americans consume something like 10 hours of media a day,3over 100,000 words and 34 gigabytes—which would crash a laptop in a week.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Prayer does not have to be theologically correct. It is a conversation.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!