Quotes about Communication

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Revelation when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and, consequently, they are not obliged to believe it. It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.-The Word of God exists in something else.

Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the word of God. The word of God exists in something else.

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.

A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.

There is no one member of the body breaks forth more in God's dishonour than the tongue.

If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.

Art is the objectification of feeling.