Quotes about Dialogue
We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.
- Ben Carson
Use your ears more than your mouth.
- Rick Warren
Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.
- Rob Bell
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
- Bede Griffiths
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
- George Bernard Shaw
Memorize a simple strategy: Don't jump to speak, ask questions and listen, watch your anger thermometer and keep the temperature down.
- Zig Ziglar
Relationships are two layers of conversations. Adapting and also speaking your mind.
- Dee Henderson
Listen more than you talk.
- Jeff Henderson
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?
- Emily Bronte
I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
- Bernice King
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.
- Pope Benedict XVI
When I put on a dress, people have a lot of questions to ask, so I like putting on a dress just to get people to ask those questions and open up a dialogue.
- Rain Dove