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Quotes About Listening

You can talk to God because God listens. Always.
~ Max Lucado
May I laugh, listen, learn, and love. And tomorrow, if it comes, may I do so again. A new day awaits you, my friend. A new season in which you will worry less and trust more. A season with reduced fear and enhanced faith. Can you imagine a life in which you are anxious for nothing? God can. And, with his help, you will experience it.
~ Max Lucado
Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard" (Dan. 10:12 NIV). You have been heard in heaven. Angelic armies have been dispatched.
~ Max Lucado
Cuatro oraciones cortas describen la esencia de la oración: «Nosotros hablamos. Él escucha. Él habla. Nosotros escuchamos».
~ Max Lucado
there are times when hearts grow so hard and ears so dull that God turns us over to endure the consequences of our choices.
~ Max Lucado
He wants to hear from us, even when our words are little more than angry arrows. Talking about it is the first step to healing.
~ Max Lucado
since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
~ Max Lucado
I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
~ May Sarton
In Texas there's so much space words have a way Of getting lost in the silence before they're spoken So people hang on a long time to what they have to say; And when they say it the silence is not broken, But it absorbs the words and slowly gives them Over to miles of white-gold plains and grey-green hills, And they are part of that silence that outlives them.
~ May Sarton
Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
~ Maya Angelou
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher. They all hear The speaking of the Tree. They hear the first and last of every Tree Speak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River. Plant yourself beside the River.
~ Maya Angelou
Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard was so agreeable to me that I went one step further: Obedient children should not see or hear if they chose not to do so. I laid a handful of attention on my face and tuned up the sounds in the church.
~ Maya Angelou
Your grandmother says you read a lot. Every chance you get. That's good, but not good enough. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
~ Maya Angelou
I discovered that to achieve perfect personal silence all I had to do was to attach myself leechlike to sound. I began to listen to everything. I probably hoped that after I had heard all the sounds, really heard them and packed them down, deep in my ears, the world would be quiet around me.
~ Maya Angelou
Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard was so agreeable to me that I went one step further: Obedient children should not see or hear if they chose not to do so.
~ Maya Angelou
Then Revered Thomas would being. Blessed Father, we thank you this morning... and on and on and on. I'd stop listening after a while until Bailey kicked me and then I cracked my lids to see what had promised to be a meal that would make any Sunday proud. But as the Reverend droned on and on and on to a God who I though must be bored to hear the same things over and over again, I saw that the ham grease had turned white on the tomatoes.
~ Maya Angelou
It simply isn't a woman's nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.
~ Maya Banks
How do you know what I want? You've never asked.
~ Maya Banks
She said nothing the entire time she was with you? Let nothing slip? Think, Alaric. The had to have said something. It simply isn't a woman's nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.
~ Maya Banks
There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.
~ Meg Cabot
Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?
~ Meg Cabot
To keep one's marriage brimming, With love in the wedding cup, Whenever you're wrong admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
~ Meg Cabot
Z transatlantických hovorov ma ide rozhodiÃ…Â¥, lebo v pozadí po?ujem Å¡um oceánu a som celá nervózna, že nás po?úvajú ryby alebo ?o.
~ Meg Cabot