Quotes About Listening

Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Don't feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.