Quotes about Conversation

She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen.

She came to faith because she met and talked with someone who made her feel enveloped by God's love.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Here is the life of holiness as the Thrice Holy gives it: the Father, the first, the Holy One, making holy; the Son, the second, His Holy One, in whom we are; the Spirit, the third, who dwells in us, and through whom we abide in Christ, and Christ in us. Thus it is that the Thrice Holy makes us holy. [. . .] Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (2 Peter 3:11, KJV).

He that adopts the sentiments of another whom he has reason to believe wiser than himself is only to be blamed when he claims the honours which are not due but to the author, and endeavours to deceive the world into praise and veneration; for to learn is the proper business of youth; and whether we increase our knowledge by books, or by conversation, we are equally indebted to foreign assistance.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.