Quotes About Listening

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

If we ask anything according to his will he heareth us.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

We say to others only what we need to hear

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

I think the dead should shut up unless there's something to say

People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves. In MI, the helper is a companion who typically does less than half of the talking.

People are more likely to be persuaded by what they hear themselves say.

It takes two to speak truth—One to speak, and another to hear. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

As a practical guide, music you can carry on a conversation over is safe. If you have to shout over the noise, it's too loud.

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark youHis absolute "shall"?

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.