Quotes about Communication

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.

The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.

But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate: thus the absolute centrality of scripture to our discipleship. And this, among other things, is the reason why an extensive use of solitude and silence is so basic for growth of the human spirit, for they form an appropriate context for listening and speaking to God.

Seek not to speak, but that you might have something to say.

We want to ask questions and not just make assertions.

Most families would be healthier and happier if their members treated one another with the respect they would give to a perfect stranger. C. S. Lewis's discussion of storage, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life. He notes that he has been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

Your tongue follows correctness; your heart follows truth.

Practice in not speaking can at least give us enough control over what we say that our tongues do not "go off" automatically. This discipline provides us with a certain inner distance that gives us time to consider our words fully and the presence of mind to control what we say and when we say it.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

But there is nothing in Scripture to indicate that the biblical modes of God's communication with humans have been superseded or abolished by either the presence of the church or the close of the scriptural canon. This