“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for [others] is learning to listen to them… Listening can be greater service than speaking… There is a kind of listening… an impatient, inattentive listening, that… is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person.”
"But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger." James 1:9
