Quotes about Conversation
Too often we get caught up in our own words concerning prayer. Sometimes we try to pray so long, loud, and fancy that we lose sight of the fact that prayer is our conversation with God. The length or loudness or eloquence of our prayer is not the issue; it is the sincerity of our heart and the confidence we have that God hears and will answer us that is important.
- Joyce Meyer
Prayer mixed with worry and a negative conversation doesn't bring an answer.
- Joyce Meyer
There is a simple rule we can follow to guide us in our conversation: If it is good, uplifting, wholesome, and pleasant, say all you want to, but if it is evil, negative, critical, and complaining, then don't say it. Ask God to change your heart so there is not even a hint of wanting to say it. What is in our heart will eventually come out of our mouth, so we cannot change what we say unless we change what we think.
- Joyce Meyer
Prayer is talking to God about all kinds of things. You would never expect to have a good relationship with a human being if you never spoke to that person or took time to listen to him or her, would you? Then why would you think you could enjoy a growing relationship with God if you never spoke or listened to Him?
- Joyce Meyer
The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.
- Walter Brueggemann
Even when we are confused and struggle, if we will only stay in the conversation with God, He will take us where we need to go.
- Darlene Zschech
They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon professional strong men, and scarcely looked normal at all. And they talked interminably and loudly. From their bouncing mental health ordinary ill-balanced mortals shrank in alarm.
- Dorothy Sayers
Peter: Oy! Harriet: Hullo! Peter: I just wanted to ask whether you'd given any further thought to that suggestion about marrying me. Harriet (sarcastically) : I suppose you were thinking how delightful it would be to go through life together like this? Peter: Well, not quite like this. Hand in hand was more my idea. Harriet: What is that in your hand? Peter: A dead starfish. Harriet: Poor fish! Peter: No ill-feeling, I trust? Harriet: Oh, dear no.
- Dorothy Sayers
It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After
- Dorothy Sayers
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
- Alain de Botton
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
- Al Gore
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson