Quotes about Communication

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic.  Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty  We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are.

Making another person feel guilty will never build unity or goodwill; only blessing, not blaming, can do that. All judgment does is to shut people down emotionally and psychologically.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

I came to the conclusion that the cure for a lot of my moodiness was having more frequent sex with my wife.

We want to state this carefully: a spouse who is evil, distant, cruel, unloving, or abusive should not use this information to demand more sex from his wife without first dealing with his sin.

To make matters worse, seemingly every book I read by Christians on sex and marriage sounded unfair. Nearly every one said the husband had to work very hard to understand his wife, to relate to her.

Back in high school, once she suspected that I was probably not a Christian, she did not break up with me as she should have.

Contextualization is about showing the relevance of the gospel, not making the gospel relevant. That's the essence of contextualization.

Corporate worship is to be intelligible.

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.