Quotes About Listening

Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words....

we only shout when we neglect what silence can do

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart.

True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.

People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him