Quotes about Listening

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God.

I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge

Prayer is listening.

Racial tensions are rife with pride—the pride of white supremacy, the pride of black power, the pride of intellectual analysis, the pride of anti-intellectual scorn, the pride of loud verbal attack, and the pride of despising silence, the pride that feels secure, and the pride that masks fear. Where pride holds sway, there is no hope for the kind of listening and patience and understanding and openness to correction that relationships require.