Hearing Quotes

If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

You know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

He who has ears for hearing, let him listen

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

Having your spiritual radar up in constant anticipation of His presence- even in the midst of the joyful chaos and regular rhythms of your everyday living- is paramount in hearing God, because sometimes the place and manner you find Him is the least spectacular you'd expect.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

People aren't hearing all the music.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.

Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

I have selective hearing.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

I love hearing people laugh.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.