Quotes about Words

Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

When all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, he relayed to them the exact words the king had commanded him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had overheard the conversation.

And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

I see it all. I feel it all. I am inspired. My eyes fill with tears. Yet even as I feel this. I lash my frenzy higher and higher. It foams. It becomes artificial, insincere. Words and words and words, how they gallop - how they lash their long manes and tails, but for some fault in me I cannot fly with them, scattering women and string bags. There is some flaw in me - some fatal hesitancy, which, if I pass it over, turns to foam and falsity

When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

The Word is, by definition, immanent in the divinity and active in the world, and as such the Father's revelation. A revelation of the Father without the Logos and his incarnation would be like speaking without words.

You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!