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Thomas Merton
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him requires a lot of courage and know-how.
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Peter Kreeft
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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.
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Frederick Buechner
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Listen for God, stop and watch and wait for him. To love God means to pay attention, be mindful, be open to the possibility that God is with you in ways that, unless you have your eyes open, you may n...
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Henri J. M. Nouwen
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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 a...
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Joshua Brooks
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- Listening to God
For many of us, our ears have simply become attuned to listen for the opinions of people, all the while becoming deaf to the voice of God. As H. G. Wells once said, “The trouble with so many people is...
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Pope Paul VI
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Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
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Frank Buchman
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- Listening to God
The lesson the world most needs is the art of listening to God . . . God gave a man two ears and one mouth. Why don’t you listen twice as much as you talk? This is a daily possibility for everyone—to ...
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Frank Laubach
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- Listening to God
- Conversational Prayer
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.
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J. Oswald Sanders
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It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but d...
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Alan Fadling
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The practices of solitude, silence and listening to God started to slow me down and enabled me to focus my attention more and more on coming to Jesus and following him rather than talking about Jesus ...
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Eugene Peterson
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- Parables
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Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 18:22-35, Luke 16:19-31, Matthew 13:3-8, Matthew 20:1-16, Matthew 13:24-33, Matthew 13:44-50, Mark 4:26-29
The Parable is a form of speech that has a style all of its own. It is a way of saying something that requires the imaginative participation of the listener. Inconspicuously, even surreptitiously, a p...
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Eugene Peterson
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- Language
- Words
Language is primarily a means of revelation, both for God and for us. Using words, God reveals himself to us. Using words, we reveal ourselves to God and to one another. By means of language, the enti...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- God's Word
- Listening
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.
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Andrew Murray
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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.
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Eugene H. Peterson
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- Liturgy
The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of two movements. First it gets us into the sanctuary, the place of adoration and atten...
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Contemplative prayer . . . neither can nor should be self-contemplation, but [rather] a reverent regard and listening to . . . the Not-me, namely, the Word of God.
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Frank Laubach
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- Listening
- Conversational Prayer
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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- Listening
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
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- Prayer
Contemplative prayer . . . neither can nor should be self-contemplation, but [rather] a reverent regard and listening to . . . the Not-me, namely, the Word of God.
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Gerald G. May
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Genesis 28:10–17, Deuteronomy 4:29, Ecclesiastes 3:11, John 4:13–14, Acts 17:26–27, Psalm 42:1–2
After twenty years of listening to the yearnings of people’s hearts [as a counselor], I am convinced that all human beings have an inborn desire for God.
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Phillip Yancey
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- Listening
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.
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Gordon T. Smith
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It is inconceivable to think that God would give us so much to do that we can no longer spend extended time with Him.
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Augustine of Hippo
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- The Soul
O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salva...
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Oswald Chambers
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1 Kings 19:12, Romans 8:26, John 14:15-17, John 3:8, 1 Kings 19:11-12
The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr… So gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
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Henri Nouwen, with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird
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A spiritual discipline or practice is a way of creating some open and free space in which God can move an speak. For example, the discipline of solitude helps us spend time with God alone and so becom...
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Brother Lawrence
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There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
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Mike Krzyzewski
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Galatians 4:4-5, Titus 3:4-7, Philippians 2:8, Hebrews 2:14-15, 17-18, Hebrews 4:15, 1 Peter 4:8, Matthew 5:9
[I] try to get into their world a little bit [by listening to hip-hop], because if they’re only adapting to you and you’re not adapting to them in some way, I don’t think you’ve developed a relationsh...
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Augustine of Hippo
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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...
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Charles F. Stanley
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- Conversation with God
- Power of Prayer
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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- Covenant
Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.