Quotes about Words

This chapter invites you to consider the life-changing help you can find in the person and promises of the Lord Jesus Christ for your struggle with words.

But he is asking us to own the connection between our thoughts, desires, and words.

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

Words can be powerful or they can be cheap. What makes words powerful is the action that flows from them. Theology also can be powerful or cheap. What makes right thinking about God powerful is the life that emerges daily from that theology.

We automatically remember what makes a real difference in our life. The secret of the great teacher is to speak words, to foster experiences, that impact the active flow of the hearer's life. That is what Jesus did by the way he taught. He tied his teachings to concrete events that make up the hearers' lives. He aimed his sayings at their hearts and habits as these were revealed in their daily lives.

The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.

Jesus and his words have never belonged to the categories of dogma or law, and to read them as if they did is simply to miss them.

Too many are tempted to dismiss what Jesus says as just "pretty words." But those who think it is unrealistic or impossible are more short on imagination than long on logic. They should have a close look at the universe God has already brought into being before they decide he could not arrange for the future life of which the Bible speaks.

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.