"If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be"
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"My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice."
"Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula."
"The message is clear. It is not what is happening 'out there.' It is what is happening between your ears. It's your attitude that counts."
"The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding."
"If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears."
"Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears."
"the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears."
"The place of justice is a hallowed place."
"Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears."
"Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up."
"The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians."
"How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn."
"I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears."
"Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes."
"Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement."
"Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]"
"Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?"
"I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries."
"there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears."