Listening To God Quotes

• The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

  Alfred Brendel

  I Hate You, Listening Ear, Effective Listening

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• Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love, Christian, Listening

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

  Frank Laubach

  Running, Prayer, Ideas

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• Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Spiritual, Fire

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Hunger For Love

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• Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

  Frank Laubach

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

  Frank Laubach

  Ideas, Giving, Listening

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• The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.

  Charles Stanley

  Father, Listening, Essentials

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• Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

  Oswald Chambers

  Listening, Trying, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.323, Discovery House

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• Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Thinking, Differences

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• Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Listening, Obeying God

  "The obedience that sets us free". Morning Meditation in The Chapel of The Domus Sanctae Marthae, thecatholicgeeks.com. Thursday, 11 April 2013.

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• Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.

  Leanne Payne

  Keys, Listening, Method

  Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.121, Baker Books

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Hunger For Love, Silence

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Listening, Loses

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2015

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Voice, Secret

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• Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Listening, Firsts

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• Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pain, Simple, Listening To Others

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer”, p.34, Ignatius Press

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• He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Marquee

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• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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• There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

  Brother Lawrence

  Sweet, Prayer, Practice

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.20, Baker Books

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• The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Prayer, Silence, Empathy

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

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• We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

  Bo Sanchez

  Get Well, Healing, Humility

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