Quotes about Communication

We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.

It's not the idea that we hear, as much as the positive or negative energy behind it.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis

I wondered if God might have an easier time using animals to communicate who God is, since they do not seem as willful and devious as we are.

The offended ones feel the need to offend back those who they think have offended them, creating defensiveness on the part of the presumed offenders, which often becomes a new offensive—ad infinitum. There seems to be no way out of this self-defeating and violent Ping-Pong game—except growing up spiritually.

In any situation, your taking or giving of energy is what you are actually doing.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry louder in his ears than your sins.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.

As so many people in the Bible did, tell God exactly how you feel.