Quotes on Listening To God

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.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

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

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

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

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.

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