Quotes about Conversation

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Listen more than you talk.

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?

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

Avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it's not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.

I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!'. The Social Round. Always something going on.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

character simply by listening to their conversation. The more loving our words and actions are toward others, the more loving and kind our thoughts will be.