Quotes about Communication

So if you're dealing with a nonperforming employee, particularly on issues related to work ethic, I suggest that you begin by asking three questions: Has this employee received a written job description? Have you published some sort of general, written policy that outlines requirements for practical work issues like starting time, lunch breaks, stopping times, making or receiving personal phone calls, etc.? Does this person understand how you like to receive reports?

Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

Truth that is not spoken in love ceases to be truth because it is twisted by other human agendas. Love that is not guided by truth ceases to be love because it is divorced from God's agenda. Once

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Word problems are often interpretation problems. We do not say the right thing because we do not believe the right thing.

Genesis 1—the only time in human history when there was no war of words. In Genesis 1, the world of communication was a world of peace, truth, and life. Words were never used as weapons. Truth was never used to tear down. Words were always spoken in love, and human communication never broke the bonds of peace.

You do not really understand the significance of words until you realize that the first words that human ears ever heard were not the words of another human being, but the words of God! The value of every piece of human communication is rooted in the fact that God speaks.

When we speak, it must be with the realization that God has given our words significance. He has ordained for them to be important.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.