Quotes about Communication

Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters might be obtained, who might be employed for a time; and where these were not to be found, the missionaries must have patience, and mingle with the people, till they have learned so much of their language as to be able to communicate their ideas to them in it.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Words are the only things that last for ever.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

Good apologetics involves "speaking the truth in love" (Eph. 4:15). Is Apologetics Biblical?

God is unwearied Patience, a Meekness that cannot be provoked; he is an ever-enduring Mercifulness; he is unmixed Goodness, impartial, universal Love; his Delight is in the Communication of himself, his own Happiness, to every thing, according to its Capacity. He does every thing that is good, righteous and lovely, for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely. He is the Good from which nothing but Good cometh, and resisteth all Evil, only with Goodness.