Quotes about Communication

Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.

Without the sharing of personal experience, prophetic preaching is impossible.

Insecurity not only paralyzes our relationship with the living God but has a devastating effect on interpersonal relationships. It is the starting point of all social estrangement. It breaks down openness, which is the bridge to the existential world of the other. It undermines real communication and causes a kind of rupture in the evolution of authentic personality.

In a healthy family, you know how love is defined: It's clear, has boundaries, and is attainable. Unfortunately, in a shame-bound family, love is a moving target; one day it's this and one day it's that, and just when you're sure you've got it figured out, you discover you don't.

Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.

First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.

Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community.

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

A good host is the one who believes that his guest is carrying a promise he wants to reveal to anyone who shows genuine interest.

We will never believe that we have anything to give unless there is someone who is able to receive.

we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us.

A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.