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Quotes About Heeding

In contrast, parables represent a mode of communicating that cannot be heard without being heeded, in which the only evidence of having "heard" its message is in the fleshly incarnation of that message.
~ Peter Rollins
God's Word cannot be heard without being heeded; it cannot be received without being incarnated. Indeed, it is only in being incarnated that one can say that it has been received.
~ Peter Rollins
The idle life I lead Is like a pleasant sleep, Wherein I rest and heed The dreams that by me sweep.
~ Robert Bridges
To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!
~ Manuela George-Izunwa
Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us.
~ Margaret George
From the initial days of my career I have always given importance to two things. One is to heed to directors instructions and the other is to have faith on my action director.
~ Pankaj Kapur
Art indeed in our day has taken on so many honors and emoluments that the recognition of its importance is more than a custom, has become on occasion almost a fury: the line is drawn--especially in the English world--only in the importance of heeding what it may mean.
~ Henry James
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The time is long overdue to count the costs of runaway rhetoric and heedless accusations - especially since most of the costs, including the high social cost of a breakdown of law and order, are paid by vulnerable people for whose benefit such rhetoric and such accusations are ostensibly being made.
~ Thomas Sowell
Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams" (1 Sam. 15: 22).
~ Kerry L. Skinner
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.
~ James Patterson
We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so culturally sensitive.
~ Simon Hoggart
Heeding Warnings about Violent Conflict? Persuasion in Foreign Policy.
~ Lawrence Freedman
There are many things I am forbidden from telling you, for I am bound by both promises and strictures. Three times I will warn you, and that's all I am permitted, so heed me. Something even more dangerous than your prince walks in his shadow. Do not seek him out.
~ Holly Black
The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it.
~ Peter Rollins
as we heeded the call of the Katyusha rockets, hissing in the distance like librarians demanding silence.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
~ 2 Chronicles 25:16
A wise son heeds his fatherís discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
~ Proverbs 13:1
The calm words of the wise are heeded over the shouts of a ruler among fools.
~ Ecclesiastes 9:17
Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
~ Isaiah 32:9
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBehold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.í”
~ Jeremiah 19:15
and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
~ Jeremiah 26:5
But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
~ Ezekiel 3:21