Quotes About Listening

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now.

no hay peor sordo que el que quiere oír

Antes eramos increíblemente tontos. Dejábamos que todo pasara y sólo hallábamos fuerzas para charlar, para escuchar cómo charlaban los otros.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

You tell me about your ghost," she said. "And I'ss tell you about mine.

Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears...

Leef is beter as skryf, beter as lees, beter as luister of enige ander tweedehandse ervaring.

In a world where so many speak and don't hear, she is somebody who listens with her mind and hears with her heart.

even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them.

God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

One reason we turn a deaf ear to God is because we're afraid of what He's going to say, but that's because we don't know His heart toward us. You want to hear what He has to say. Trust me. The Song of Songs says, 'His mouth is sweetness itself.

Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.

We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.

And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.

If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.

God is big enough. He's big enough to speak through doors and dreams and people. He's close enough to speak through desires and promptings and pain.

Obedience starts with a pierced ear. It's tuning into God's frequency and turning up the volume. It's obeying His whispers, even if a thousand people are screaming something different. 'Tell me to what you pay attention,' said the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, 'and I will tell you who are you.' You will eventually be shaped in the image of the loudest voice in your life. Genuine listening is ultimately an act of submission.

Si quieres que Dios haga algo nuevo, no puedes seguir haciendo siempre lo mismo. Tienes que atreverte a ser diferente, lo que incluye escuchar de manera diferente. De eso se trata aprender estos siete lenguajes de Dios. ¡Que empiece la fiesta!

Is God's voice the loudest voice in your life? That's the question. If the answer is no, that's the problem.

We live in a culture where everyone wants to have his or her voice heard but has so little to say. And that's because we do so little listening, especially to God. The best way to get people to listen to us is for us to listen to God. Why? Because we'll have something to say that is worth hearing. Ultimately, all of us need to find our voice. And by voice I mean the unique message God wants to speak through our lives. But finding our voice starts with hearing His voice.

People can creatively devise how to approach a mute God, but they must listen to a speaking God.