Quotes about Listening
Technology, Andrew says, makes us far too accessible to the demands and pressures of the moment. 'Our first priority should be listening in patience and silence for the voice of God.
— Brother Andrew
What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.
— John Maxwell
Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
— St. Augustine
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
— Eugene Peterson
Seek first to understand, then to be understood ... Remember, unexpressed feelings never die. They are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways. You've got to share your feelings or they'll eat your heart out.
— Sean Covey
It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
— Shane Claiborne
Not many people get argued into thinking differently, but experiences and stories move us, especially when we have the humility to listen and view the world from a different lens, from someone else's eyes.
— Shane Claiborne
Grow us slowly, persistently, and deeply, Lord, to be people who watch without distraction, listen without interruption, and stay put without inclination to flee. Amen.
— Shane Claiborne
LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
— Oscar Wilde
Speak, Lord"; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord."
— Oswald Chambers
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
— John Adams
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
— Joyce Meyer