Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

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.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Listen more than you talk.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?