Quotes about Speaking
The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
- John Piper
When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?
- Ted Dekker
But God has called you to speak the Word to the world and to speak it fearlessly. While acknowledging your woundedness, do not let go of the truth that lives in you and demands to be spoken.
- Henri Nouwen
We learn to speak through listening, and we grow in love of God through listening.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.
- Marcus Aurelius
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- Henri Nouwen
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
- Jennifer Lopez
I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge
- Aristotle
The angel ended, and in Adam's ear so charming left his voice that he awhile thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
- John Milton
What Jesus has in mind here is not fear about speaking but profound respect for the gloriousness of the gospel, a desire to honor God, and an approach to gospeling that does the most service to Christ. In other words, we need to ask if speaking up in a given situation will honor or vilify Christ, and then to act accordingly.
- Scot McKnight
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
- Andy Stanley