Quotes about Dialogue

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don't understand His replies. We cannot under-stand them. Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and re-main there until we die. The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself. And why do you pray, Moishe? I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.

Use your ears more than your mouth.

Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

Memorize a simple strategy: Don't jump to speak, ask questions and listen, watch your anger thermometer and keep the temperature down.

Relationships are two layers of conversations. Adapting and also speaking your mind.

Listen more than you talk.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?