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10/2/98
"As you develop your capacity
to love unconditionally, remember that
listening is a part of showing love. If your home is a home
where children
are listened to, even when what they say doesn't seem important or you
don't
feel you have time, then you are preparing hearts. Can we listen
openly to
a shocking experience without going into a state of shock ourselves,
or without
an immediate verbal overreaction? We all know there is a time to talk
and a time
to listen. To listen with patience to a young peer son's reasons
for
getting home late bring you undying gratitude. Remember, you can
listen to
understand, not necessarily to agree. Ofttimes we do our best
teaching
when we listen. Husband and wife relationships are nourished and
strengthened as we listen to each other more. Hearts are
softened."
— H. Burke Peterson, Preparing The Heart, General Conference,
April 1990
10/3/98
"On the other hand, I urge you
children to be patient with your parents.
If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating,
clothing styles,
modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have
the
experience that you lack. Very few, if any, of the challenges and
temptations
you face are new to them. If you think they know nothing about the
vital issues
I just mentioned, take a good look at their high school and college
yearbooks.
Most important, they love you and will do anything they can to help
you be truly
happy." — Joseph B. Wirthlin, Patience, a Key to
Happiness, General Conference, April 1987
10/4/98
"Parents, would you draw near
to each member of your family? Learn to
communicate with God and with one another. Hold family prayer each
morning and
evening; have individual prayer. Teach your children to "listen" when
they pray. Learn to listen to your children. It is often true that 90
percent of
our help comes from listening only. Learn to ponder. Take time to
meditate." — A. Theodore Tuttle, Improvement Era,
June 1970, p.81
10/5/98
"Are you enjoying the warmth
and security and love of your parents? Do
you counsel with them? Are you sharing precious experiences with them?
Do you
listen to them? When you return home can they see and feel and hear of
your love
for them? Are you too big to hug and kiss them now? Remember, one day
they will
be gone." — Robert B. Harbertson, "Families", BYU
Speeches of the Year, 2 June 1985
10/6/98
"In all things there is a
priority of importance. ... And one of our
urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks —
remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always
teachable, that
they won't always listen. And often we have to take them on their
terms, at
their times, and not always on our terms, and at our times. But if we
respond to
them with sincere attention and sincere concern, they will likely
continue to
come to us and ask. And if they find they can trust us with their
trivial
questions, they may later trust us with the more weighty ones."
Richard
L. Evans, Thoughts for One Hundred Days, 5 vols., Salt Lake
City:
Publishers Press, 1972, 5:114-15
4/28/04
"Carefully listen to learn
from the Lord through the still small voice-the
Holy Spirit-which leads to truth. (See 1
Kgs. 19:12; 1
Ne. 17:45; D&C
85:6.) Listen to learn by
studying scriptures that record His holy mind and will. (See John
5:39; Alma 14:1;
Alma 33:2.) Listen
to learn in
prayer, for He will answer the humble who truly seek Him. (See Mosiah
9:18; Mosiah
23:10; Alma
9:26; D&C
19:23; D&C
112:10; Abr.
2:19; JS-H,
footnote, para. 5, p. 59.)"
- Russell M. Nelson, "Listen
to
Learn," Ensign, May 1991, pp. 24-25
5/29/05
"As we are learning to discern
the promptings of the Spirit, there are so many distractions. At one
time President Ezra Taft Benson reminded us that 'the world shouts
louder than the whisperings of the Holy Ghost' ('Beware of Pride,'
Ensign, May 1989, 5). Each of us has to learn to be sensitive and to
listen to the whisper." - Janette Hales Beckham, "Making
Faith a Reality," Ensign, Nov. 1997, 75
11/16/05
"I think things do not happen by chance. I think they happen by
appointment, under the plans of God. I think he governs and rules, and
that he whispers to those who will listen to him. And to those who
listen to him, and respond, he confides his Holy Spirit, and he gives
them a power and a strength that is not of man, but comes from Him." - Samuel
O. Bennion, "Conference Report," April 1938, Afternoon Meeting, p.60
7/29/09
“We do not
need greater prophets. We need listening ears. We need hearts that are
sufficiently pure that we can feel their words. We need souls
that will commit to the keeping of our covenants.” - L.
Aldin Porter, “The Revelations of Heaven,” Ensign (CR), November
1994, p. 62
10/12/14
But
I tell you this: God cares about you. He will listen, and He will
answer your personal questions. The answers to your prayers will
come in His own way and in His own time, and therefore, you need to
learn to listen to His voice. God wants you to find your way back to
Him, and the Savior is the way. God wants you to learn of His Son,
Jesus Christ, and experience the profound peace and joy that come
from following the path of divine discipleship. - Dieter
F. Uchtdorf, “Receiving
a Testimony of Light and Truth,” Ensign (CR) November 2014