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give ear to

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give (an) ear to someone or something and give one's ear to someone or something
Fig. to listen to someone or to what someone is saying. (Compare this with get someone's ear.) I gave an ear to Mary so she could tell me her problems. She wouldn't give her ear to my story. He gave ear to the man's request.
See also: ear, give


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I often refer to this experience as the "Spirit's morning call" borrowed from a verse by Rudolf Steiner: we humans of present time must give ear to the Spirit's morning call.
These slow movements, ' he wrote of the symphonies, 'speak of a faith that might well move mountains; whatever our creed, we must all give ear to their strong onward-moving song.
To take life seriously as it really is, to give ear to the subjective experience of this reality and to link it up with the Christian tradition, is a particular concern and a special gift of feminist theology.
 
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