Quotes about Communication

It's the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they're not quite telling each other the truth and they're not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

Occasionally, we go through times when we feel God is not speaking to us. While that may be so, most of the time He has simply changed His language, and He expects us to adjust with Him.

The same way that Jesus became flesh, the Holy Spirit becomes words, and when they are spoken, they bring life.

Let me put this in my words: Solomon asked for a hearing heart, and God said, Okay, I'll give you wisdom. The implication is that wisdom is not just a deposit made into somebody who now has all the answers. It implies that the ability to hear the voice of God is the key to wisdom. Wisdom, then, is a relational fruit.

Saying what the Father is saying releases the creative nature and Presence of God into a situation to bring His influence and change.

In learning how God speaks to us I've also learned that besides unusual coincidences

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.