Quotes about Listening
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
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
I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
- William Wordsworth
I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
- William Wordsworth
The remaining, less developed characters, were still either listening or laughing. They were divided between curiosity and satisfaction. They felt happy, but did not know it.
- Elias Canetti
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
- Elie Wiesel
Steadfastness, that is holding on; Patience, that is holding back; Expectancy, that is holding the face up; Obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; Listening, that is holding quiet and still as to hear.
- Elisabeth Elliot