Quotes about Communication

The offended ones feel the need to offend back those who they think have offended them, creating defensiveness on the part of the presumed offenders, which often becomes a new offensive—ad infinitum. There seems to be no way out of this self-defeating and violent Ping-Pong game—except growing up spiritually.

In any situation, your taking or giving of energy is what you are actually doing.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry louder in his ears than your sins.

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.

As so many people in the Bible did, tell God exactly how you feel.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.

Imagine how much needless frustration could be avoided if we learned from each other's life lessons. Mature people develop the habit of extracting lessons from everyday experiences.

You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.