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Quotes about Communication

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.
- John Calvin
When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him.
- John Calvin
Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse.
- John Calvin
For it is through the prophets that God adapts to our need whatever might seem to us remote and of no concern to us.
- John Calvin
God, in so speaking, lisps with us as nurses are wont to do with little children.
- John Calvin
but will supply our necessities until our warfare is ended, and we are called to triumph: such being the nature of his kingdom, that he communicates to us whatever he received of his Father. Since then he arms and equips us by his power, adorns us with splendour and magnificence
- John Calvin
When God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him.
- John Calvin
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.
- John Calvin
For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
- John Donne
Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.
- John Donne
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love
- John Donne
I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.
- Edmund Hillary