Quotes about Communication

If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically.

Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

There is nothing more unloving than to be silent in the face of lies that will ruin another person.

A bagel shop isn't the most romantic spot to tell a girl you like her. But that night romance wasn't the priority. Our time there wasn't intended to be mushy. I didn't propose marriage or say I was madly in love with her, and she didn't swoon. What I did tell her was that through our friendship I'd grown to respect her.

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments.

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.