Quotes about Listening

I still have scars that need healing, wounds that may never completely go away. And I still have a lot of unanswered questions about the suffering I've seen. But at least I'm open and willing to have God show me the way. I listen closely to what he has to tell me. I know he helped me stay alive for a reason, and each day I strive to live out that reason.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

Charlotte." No, no, no. "Dixie, wait, listen to me—

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Please, you will do it anyway. When you hear to do a merciful thing, that is always at least a whisper from the heart of HaShem. Obedience will strengthen the ears of your spirit.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.