Quotes about Listening

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude. The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet. Having gazed cautiously round him, and listened intently, he gently undid the fastenings of the door, and looked abroad.

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.

I am listening, I am diligently trying to collect all the brains that are borrowable in order that I may not make more blunders than it is inevitable that a man should make who has great limitations of knowledge and capacity.

[Silence] is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

Nothing will give you emotional laryngitis like living in close proximity to someone who refuses to listen. Having emotions but no voice chokes the life out of relationships.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.