Quotes about Conversation

When all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, he relayed to them the exact words the king had commanded him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had overheard the conversation.

The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

Aware of their conversation, Jesus said, “You of little faith, why are you debating among yourselves about having no bread?

As soon as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about the parable.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity.

Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

And there hath not been any one more effectual means of bringing unholiness, with an ungodly course of conversation, into the Christian world, than this one of teaching men to satisfy themselves in this duty by their saying, reading, or repetition of the words of other men, which, it may be, they understand not, and certainly are not in a due manner affected withal; for it is this duty whereby our whole course is principally influenced.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.