Quotes About Listening

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.

83]So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to "offer" something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear.

Before the heart unlocks itself for the world, God wants to open it for himself; before the ear takes in the countless voices of the day, it should hear in the early hours the voice of the Creator and Redeemer. God prepared the stillness of the first morning for himself. It should remain his.

To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the

You are disobedient, you are trying to keep some part of your life under your own control. That is what is preventing you from listening to Christ and believing in his grace. You cannot hear Christ because you are willfully disobedient. Somewhere in your heart you are refusing to listen to his call. Your difficult is your sins.

Cuvântul potrivit se naÈ™te din t?cere È™i t?cerea potrivit? se naÈ™te din cuvânt.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent

I do not wish to listen to people denouncing their parents.

Slušaj svog tajnog i naj?eš?e nepogrešivog ?uvara hrabrih. On boravi u glavi, ali i ispod srca.

24 En verdad, en verdad les digo, que quien escucha mi palabra, y cree a aquel que me ha enviado, tiene la vida eterna, y no incurre en sentencia de condenación, sino que ha pasado ya de muerto a vida.

Conversation is not dialogue, it's monologues. No one ever really listens in conversations. It's civility that makes you wait and pretend you give a fuck what the other person is saying.

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let's face it — you weren't listening then either.

He who speaks least has the most power.

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

i never learned anything while i was talking.