Quotes about Listening
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
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