If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.
I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.
Bad roads and indifferent inns,. . . the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him. . . He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.
Trust me, it takes talent to converse with a cat
Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. . . enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
I can't count how many pairs of Converse shoes I own.
The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.
It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.
Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?
We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.
The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.
