Quotes about Dialogue

Now, where were we? Read me back the last line." " 'Read me back the last line,' " read back the corporal who could take shorthand.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

1. The first partner in the meeting is the text.

Fou!" "Who?" "I didn't say 'who'; I said 'fou,' " "I know you did. I said who?" "Who?" "Who's fou?" "Oh, is. By Jove, 'suis'! 'Je suis fou.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN'S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD'S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.