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Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
Sep 29, 2025
The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.
The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.
He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God.
Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.
Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.
Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
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.
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.
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
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.
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.
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.
Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God."
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
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.
As much as he's been through, he's so alive and open to change. That's what I wanted to channel and I feel that's the root of who he is. So I was still and listening to God. All of that came together to really birth this human being known as Ralph Angel.
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.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.
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.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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