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Quotes About Listening

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
~ Mother Teresa
The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.
~ Matthew Henry
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
~ Stormie Omartian
I believe God always listens to our prayers.
~ Paula White
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."
~ Henri Nouwen
Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
~ George Arthur Buttrick
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.
~ Andy Murray
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
~ Henri Nouwen
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.
~ Elizabeth O'Connor
Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
~ Shirley MacLaine
If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.
~ Mohammed Daoud Khan
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
~ Mother Teresa
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.
~ Mary C. Neal
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
~ J. C. Macaulay
They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it
~ C. S. Lewis
If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.
~ Richard J. Needham
The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.
~ Pope Francis
Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.
~ Sonia Choquette
Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."
~ Richard J. Foster