Quotes about Active Listening
When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
— Myles Munroe
Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
— AB Simpson
God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.
— Joshua Harris
since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.
— Watchman Nee
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
— Stephen Covey
What line of thinking do my thoughts take? Do I turn to what God says or to my own fears? Am I simply repeating what God says, or am I learning to truly hear Him and then to respond after I have heard what He says?
— Oswald Chambers
If you lead a team, start asking questions and really listening. Start valuing the contributions of your teammates ahead of your own. And remember that when the best idea wins, so does the entire team.
— John Maxwell
Good leaders listen, learn, and then lead.
— John Maxwell
Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. (James 1:19)
— Paul David Tripp
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
— GK Chesterton
There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.
— JC Ryle
Preaching is one thing—and it is crucial. But hearing is another thing—and it is just as crucial.
— John Piper