Quotes about Listening
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
- Origen
In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
- DL Moody
God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.
- Mother Teresa
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
- Madeleine L'Engle
When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.
- Joyce Meyer
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
- Henry Blackaby
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
- Mother Teresa
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
- Charles Spurgeon
It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
- Stormie Omartian
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."
- Henri Nouwen
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
- Henri Nouwen
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
- Lysa TerKeurst