Quotes about Listening
Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for and count upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open your heart to understand this holy calling. And then speak out the answer you have to give to this call.
— Andrew Murray
We want to wait on Him and put away our experiences, however blessed they have been; our concept of truth, however sound and scriptural we think it is; our plans, however needful and suitable they appear.
— Andrew Murray
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets — and even the gospel itself — as without value.
— John Calvin
When God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him.
— John Calvin
Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
— Dallas Willard
When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
— Myles Munroe
The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.
— John Maxwell
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
— Vernon Howard
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
— Samuel Johnson
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
— Lily Tomlin