Quotes about Dialogue

The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.

May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to. —C. S. Lewis

Further, we often make the mistake of treating listening as merely waiting for our turn to talk. While other team members are making their points, we're preparing our rebuttal. It takes practice and discipline to withhold the urge to jump in with our opinion and really concentrate on what the other person is saying.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

And again, the genius of the laws is their ambiguity, not their clarity, for their ambiguity is the very thing that allows them to gain new life with each passing year, ensuring that past and present forever remain connected and in dialogue.

Wisdom leads us to dialogues with the past. It doesn't lead us back to the past.

An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.

Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.

Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.