Quotes about Communication
I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
— Henry David Thoreau
In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things
— Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.
— Henry David Thoreau
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
— Henry David Thoreau
The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.
— Henry David Thoreau
When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers. Leaders who begrudge people the opportunity to seek God themselves and who do not actively teach their people how to hear God's voice have disqualified themselves as spiritual leaders.
— Henry Blackaby
Unbelief can render a person stone deaf to God's voice.
— Henry Blackaby