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If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
- George Whitefield
You are either speaking as a mini-king, seeking to establish your will in your relationships and circumstances; or you are speaking as an ambassador, seeking to be part of what the King is doing. There
- Timothy Lane
it's about speaking with a biblical agenda. If
- Timothy Lane
Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him.
- Dallas Willard
But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate: thus the absolute centrality of scripture to our discipleship. And this, among other things, is the reason why an extensive use of solitude and silence is so basic for growth of the human spirit, for they form an appropriate context for listening and speaking to God.
- Dallas Willard
And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.
- Dallas Willard
Books that speak like God speak with too much authority to entertain us. Those that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them.
- Thomas Merton
My life is a listening, His is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence, my silence is my salvation.
- Thomas Merton
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
- Calvin Coolidge
You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.
- Isabel Allende
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
- Calvin Coolidge