Quotes about Listening
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
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
— Mother Teresa
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
— Charles Spurgeon
The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.
— Pope Francis
Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
— Anonymous
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
— Anne Lamott
Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.
— William Osler
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
— William Temple
How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?
— William Ury