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God whispers to us in health and prosperity, but, being hard of hearing, we fail to hear God’s voice in both. Whereupon God turns up the amplifier by means of suffering. Then his voice booms.

C. S. Lewis

We ought to open the Holy Book as we would go into a sanctuary where we were sure of meeting our heavenly Father face to face, of hearing His voice.

Dwight Lyman Moody (Evangelist)

Therefore, in the name of God I exhort you, keep close every moment to the unction of the Holy One! Attend to the still small voice! Beware of hearkening to the voice of a stranger!

John Wesley (Founder of the Methodist Movement)

The Spirit’s present work is to honor Him, and everything He does has this for its ultimate purpose. And we must make our thoughts a clean sanctuary for His holy habitation. He dwells in our thoughts, and soiled thoughts are as repugnant to Him as soiled linen to a king.7

A. W. Tozer

23  It takes no faith to hear or obey an audible voice. But it takes faith to pay attention to the still small inner voice and witness of the Holy Spirit. Steve Sampson You Can Hear the Voice of God (1993)

Steve Sampson

72    Prayer is our being in a constant state of understanding that we are in his presence, talking with him as we would a friend—a father—and being ever intent on hearing his voice as he speaks to us.

Eva Marie Everson

Though with the teaching of the Holy Spirit, every year’s experience will make the Christian riper, yet without that teaching it is possible that each year may make a Christian not more ripe, but more rotten. The Voices Of Our Days, Volume 58, Sermon #3283 - Job 32:7

Charles Spurgeon

It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

Not to know and depend on the Holy Spirit’s provision is to live a life of spiritual poverty.

Warren W. Wiersbe

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but that 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. The child attitude is always “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth.” If I have not cultivated this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God’s voice at certain times; at other times I am taken up with things—things which I say I must do, and I become deaf to Him, I am not living the life of a child. Have I heard God’s voice to-day?

Oswald Chambers (Lecturer and Missionary)

Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing.

Thomas Watson

Just as the person who has no interest in hearing the Word of God is horribly deceived about his or her spiritual condition, so is the person who is content to hear and not obey.

Roger Ellsworth

You might as well try to hear without ears, or breathe without lungs, as try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart. —D. L. Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody (Evangelist)

No one sees the Spirit, and how do we hear the voice of the Spirit? A Psalm sounds forth; it is the Spirit’s voice. The gospel sounds forth; it is the Spirit’s voice. God’s word sounds forth; it is the Spirit’s voice. “You hear his voice, but do not know where he comes from or where he goes.” But if you too should be born of the Spirit, you will be such that he who is not yet born of the spirit knows not about you where you come from and where you go. For he continues and says this, “So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The Holy Spirit cannot be located as a guest in a house. He invades everything.

Oswald Chambers (Lecturer and Missionary)

Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine of Hippo