Quotes about Communication

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

Sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

Dizzy," I said, "it's Animals taking revenge on people." Dizzy always believes me, but this time he wasn't listening.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

This challenge means that each of us as apologists must examine our own hearts. Have we loved enough to listen, or is it that we love to hear the sound of our own answers? Are we really arguing for Christ, or are we expressing our need always to be right?

Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we. Every single person is unique and individual and deserves an approach that respects that uniqueness.

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

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER