Quotes about Communication

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.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

God uses language to create and command us.

The practice of prayer, if it is going to amount to anything more than wish lists and complaints, requires a recovery of personal, relational, revelational language in both our listening and our speaking.

Writing to explore and discover what I didn't know. Writing as a way of entering into language and letting language enter me, words connecting with words and creating what had previously been inarticulate or unnoticed or hidden. Writing as a way of paying attention. Writing as an act of prayer.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Teaching resurrects dead words so they live again.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.