Quotes about Communication

I can't really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

It is far easier to deal with people as problems to be solved than to have anything to do with them in community.

The primary practice of language is not in giving out information but being in relationship.

The Scriptures, read and prayed, are our primary and normative access to God as He reveals Himself to us. The Scriptures are our listening post for learning the language of the soul, the ways God speaks to us; they also provide the vocabulary and grammar that are appropriate for us as we in our turn speak to God.

The reality that was inside of Jesus got outside of him so the disciples could see it.

It is this fusion of God speaking to us (Scripture) and our speaking to him (prayer) that the Holy Spirit uses to form the life of Christ in us.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.