Quotes about Deafness

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.

Unbelief can render a person stone deaf to God's voice.

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.

they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

they have ears, but cannot hear

“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.

Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inability to see? Did one become angry with the deaf for not hearing?

Due to sin, the knowledge of God provided by the sensus divinitatis, prior to faith and regeneration, is both narrowed in scope and partially suppressed. The faculty itself may be diseased and thus partly or wholly disabled. There is such a thing as cognitive disease; there is blindness, deafness, inability to tell right from wrong, insanity; and there are analogues of these conditions with respect to the operation of the sensus divinitatis.