Quotes about Listening

Use your ears more than your mouth.

Listening says, "I value your opinion, I care about our relationship, and you matter to me." The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

Times change. God doesn't, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

Strange, how the writer doesn't explain why Abraham leaves other than saying he hears a divine voice. Something intimate and infinite is calling to him, and he listens.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.

I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.

Work might come later, but for now, he needed God's perspective. And the only way to get it was to stop, look, listen, and remember the goodness and greatness of Almighty God.