Quotes about Communication

have discovered from personal experience that one can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Always make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.

Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?

Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, 'You're wrong.

Why is it, comedian Lily Tomlin asks, "that when we speak to God we are said to be praying but when God speaks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?" Such a response from ourselves or others to someone's claim to have heard from God is especially likely today because of the lack of specific teaching and pastoral guidance on such matters.

Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him.

People are meant to live in an ongoing conversation with God, speaking and being spoken to.

in the progress of God's redemptive work, communication advances into communion, and communion into union. When the progression is complete we can truly say, "It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2:20) and "For to me, living is Christ" (Phil 1:21).

I don't believe God messes with our minds. He is not mean, and if he has something to say to me, he will say it.

Christ is the only one capable of communicating to and developing within the believer an accurate image and idea of God.