Quotes about Words

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze.

Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy.

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. —JOHN 15:11

Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. (Revelation 22:7)

Philip's words. Though the story was by now well known to him, still it held a powerful resonance. What he saw and heard was not merely a retelling of the Lord's coming, but rather the fulfillment of words written centuries before by their most revered prophet.

We have all said things in anger in a moment that we don't mean.

In some ways, negative self-talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as an athlete is more likely to make the shot after visualizing making it, she's also more likely to miss it after visualizing a miss. Your words, whether externally spoken or internally absorbed, shape your future.

Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.

Where there is injustice, one must stand against it. Where there is suffering, one must be the hands and feet of our Lord. Where there is opportunity for good, one must seize it. As go our words, so must our acts.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.