Quotes about Words

You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.

a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.

Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.

May God teach us that our thoughts and words and feelings concerning our fellowmen are His test of our humility towards Him, and that our humility before Him is the only power that can enable us to be always humble with our fellow-men.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." . . . "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." John 6:63, 68 (NKJV)

May God teach us that our thoughts, words, and feelings concerning our fellow man are His test of our humility towards Him.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.