Quotes about Attentiveness

The first duty of love is to listen.

So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

Then the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”

But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ‘Here I am!’

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.

if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.