Quotes About Listening

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.

God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

If you want to hear God speak, read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak audibly, read your Bible out loud.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God's voice.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Only if God tells me to come back. No other way.

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.