Quotes about Communication

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

Preachers and theologians, who spend so much of their lives talking about God that, unless they are very careful, God starts to lose all reality for them and to become just a subject for metaphysical speculation.

Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.

We learn to speak through listening, and we grow in love of God through listening.

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

God spoke to the Gentiles through nature and philosophers; to the Jews, through prophecies.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.

Our effectiveness at the bottom of the ladder depends on our communication with the top. Popularity is not necessarily influence. 'Woe upon you,' said Our Lord, 'when all men speak well of you.' Greatest is our compassion for others and our ability to elevate them when we have come down from heaven. The bottom of the ladder is best discovered from the top.

A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.