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Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#semaphore #unclaimed #communication

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes. ↗

— Karl Barth

#theology #communication

Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#definition #relationship-advice #communication

All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brokenness #christ #christianity #communication #confidence

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#culture #foreign #insight #language #understanding

Journaling is the single most effective tool you may ever find for deeper intimacy with Father God and Jesus. It is a heart-to-heart method of communication with God. For you see, it is God’s desire to intimately commune with you and to have you intimately commune with Him. Journaling facilitates this heart-to-heart communion—it is simply listening to each other’s heart and writing it down. Journaling helps you hear God’s voice. God is speaking to you most of the time. Often you do not differentiate His voice from your own thoughts and therefore do not realize you are actually hearing God’s voice. If you can learn to clearly discern His voice speaking within you, you have found the font of intimacy—the heart of God speaking to you. ↗

— Linda Boone

#intimacy-with-god #real-love #soaking #communication

No adultery is bloodless. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#bloodless

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn’t just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don’t have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them, but they don’t even have the machinery to know we’re signaling. And maybe they’ve been trying to think to us, and they can’t understand why we don’t respond. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#language #reading #telepathy #writing #communication

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#self-inflicted-pain #violence #communication

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. ↗

— J. Sidlow Baxter

#arguement #communication #conflict #disagreement #smile