Terry Eagleton Quotes

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

I don't speak a lot of English, of course, but I do try to express myself, and usually, I can get across to people what I am trying to say.

Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Language is the light of the mind

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common.

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.