Quotes about Words
Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.
- Richard Baxter
If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Let me sum it up this way: We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking. Without action and lifestyle decisions, without concrete practices, words are dangerous and largely illusory.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.
- Richard Sibbes
my love cannot negate the words of my mouth and the righteousness I require.
- Kay Arthur
...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
- Frederick Buechner
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
- John Bunyan
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
- DL Moody
That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
- Francis Schaeffer
For I am a bear of very little brain, and big words bother me.
- Winnie the Pooh
A psychologist flashed hundreds of words on a screen and used an electric gadget to measure emotional reactions. High marks went to darling. So I used it in a headline for Dove.
- David Ogilvy