Ever deadhead next to a passenger who talked your ear off for the entire (full, of course) flight? Someone once said that God gave human beings two ears and one mouth so we would listen at least twice as much as we speak. Maybe that saying is true for us not only on a human-to-human basis but on a human-to-divine one as well.
Prayer was always intended by God to be two-way communication. Our relationship with our Lord will be stunted if we speak our prayers without ever pausing to hear His reply.
It is only in the quiet which comes when we finally learn to quiet ourselves that we begin to hear that “still, small voice” the Bible tells us is often God’s preferred means of contact with us.
God will not shout to be heard over our “verbal torrents” and until we begin to come to grips with that fact we will miss out on hearing from the one Person from Whom it is most needful for us to hear.
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. Proverbs 18:2 (ESV)
