Quotes about Communication

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).

Don't have your first talk about sex with your pregnant fifteen-year-old. Be positive. Talk about how good sex can be inside marriage. Don't be ashamed to talk about what God wasn't ashamed to create.

For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality.

In diminishing the other we devalue ourselves. Respect and dignity are an intrinsic part of valued relationships.

they have ears, but cannot hear

Without words life would be inexpressible. Even the best of emotions beg for a verbal expression. That is why the musician reaches not just to the melody but to the romance of language to bring harmony to life.

It took years to find out that the cry for openness is never what it purports to be. What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too.