Top 54 Listening Prayer Quotes
#1. Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
Leanne Payne
#2. 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.
Mother Teresa
#4. I've heard it said that prayer is the act of talking to God, while meditation is the act of listening.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#5. ... when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord ...
Andrew Galasetti
#6. A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.
Charles Brent
#7. Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.
Sonia Choquette
#8. Jacob crammed his eyes shut, listening to that feeble breathing, half expecting every breath to be the last. Lord, did You leave me for a purpose?
Willowy Whisper
#9. Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you.
Chris Fabry
#11. Although she was unenthusiastic about theology, she had long since realised that the real point of prayer was not to flatter those addressed; prayer was a form of meditation, she decided, and it did not detract from its efficacy that nobody was listening.
Alexander McCall Smith
#13. 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.
Philip Yancey
#15. Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.
Mary C. Neal
#16. I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
Mignon McLaughlin
#17. 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
#18. Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
R.A. Torrey
#19. Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
Frank C. Laubach
#20. 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
#21. Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."
Richard J. Foster
#22. God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
Francois Fenelon
#23. Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, couting prayer beads no more scared than simply breathing, religious robed no more spiritual than work clothes.
Lao-Tzu
#25. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.
Thomas Merton
#26. Here Sidney sat, with the ham sandwich and flask of tea that Mrs Maguire had prepared, and let thoughts come to him. It was a form of prayer, he decided. It was not asking or talking but waiting and listening. The
James Runcie
#28. At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, thanking Him for His mercies ... listening in the silence for what He has to say to us.
Billy Graham
#29. May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.
Katie Kiesler
#30. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Rajneesh
#31. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
George Arthur Buttrick
#32. A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.
Jean Vanier
#33. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.
James Van Praagh
#34. George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence.
Marilyn Wilson
#35. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
#36. Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.
David Patterson
#37. Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.
Leslie Ludy
#38. The key to finding your mission lies in listening to your heart and dancing to its beat.
Pooja Ruprell
#39. Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.
Gary Rohrmayer
#40. Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
Kelsey Grammer
#41. 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.
Soren Kierkegaard
#42. Start each day with thanksgiving, prayer, reading of the Scriptures, listening to music while engage in exercise; you will be motivated for the entire day.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.
Teresa Hampton
#44. God speaks in the silence of the heart
Listening is the beginning of prayer.
Justin Bieber
#45. Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
Adam Savage
#46. I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer
not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355]
Kim Edwards
#47. What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.
Kevin Hart
#48. Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
Nancy Mairs
#49. Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'
Leighton Ford
#50. In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#51. Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
Fulton J. Sheen
#52. Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
Gary Rohrmayer
#53. Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God's orders.
Billy Graham
#54. Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
Shirley Maclaine
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