Faithful Listening Quotes

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

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

Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

I want God to be speaking louder than the music.

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.