Sermon quotes on conversation
Richard Armour
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
Henry Ward Beecher
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Margaret Miller
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
Christopher Morley
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
J. Oswald Sanders
It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him.
Charles Stanley
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God’s responses.
Source Unknown
Of Thomas Babington Macaulay, a prodigiously articulate but oppressively constant talker:
He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Andy Dappen
Conversation is when three people are talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Andre Maurois
Conversation would be much improved by the frequent use of three words: I don’t know.
Dennis Healy
Follow the Rule of Holes: If you’re in one, stop digging.
Samuel Johnson
We had talk enough, but no conversation.
The Rambler
Stephen Colbert
Don’t all these little tweets, these little sips of online connection, add up to one big gulp of real conversation?
Martin Buber
That peoples can no longer carry on authentic dialogue with one another is not only the most acute symptom of the pathology of our time, it is also that which most urgently makes a demand of us.
Pointing the Way
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.
A Fifteen Year Old Boy
With my friends, it’s either no conversation or conversation about what’s going on, on your phone.
Quoted in Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin Publishing Group.
Brother Lawrence
There’s no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
Michael Scott (Steve Carrell)
“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. .I just hope I find it along the way.”
The Office
Phil Connors (Bill Murray)
“Ned, I would love to stand here and talk with you—but I’m not going to.”
Groundhog Day
Eric Schmidt (for contrast)
My guess—and I think this will be debated for a long time—is that humans are very communicative, and so the fact that you’re talking to more people with shorter bursts of communication is probably net neutral to positive.
Bob Goff
Arguments won’t change people. Simply giving away kindness won’t either. Only Jesus has the power to change people, and it will be harder for them to see Jesus if their view of Him is blocked by our big opinions.
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