Quotes about Word
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
- Jim Elliot
Nothing in the Bible makes any religious sense unless we are people of faith who believe that God's own self speaks to us in this living Word.
- Fleming Rutledge
The scandalous "word of the cross" is God's own Word. The link between scandal and God is in itself irreligious; this is another aspect of the uniqueness of the Christian message.
- Fleming Rutledge
The scandalous "word of the cross" is not a human word. It is the Spirit-empowered presence of God in the preaching of the crucified One.
- Fleming Rutledge
Wonders occur in groups that study the Bible together, because the Word has power to create a community of discovery that is much more than the mere sum of its individual parts.
- Fleming Rutledge
The word translated "justice" and "righteousness" is the same word in Hebrew and in Greek. The root of the word becomes, in both Testaments, both a noun and a verb, so that "justice" or "judgment" is the same thing as "righteousness" or "rectification" (making right).
- Fleming Rutledge
Thus, in Colossians 1:5-6, the Word is described not as the content of the apostles' preaching and mission, but as the active agent, the subject of the verbs: "the word of the truth, the gospel which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing.
- Fleming Rutledge
For no word from God will ever fail." Luke 1:37
- Liz Curtis Higgs
Even if the words were terrible, even though it were a Shakespeare, a Byron, or a Shelley who broke the silence,20 the word always retains its redeeming power, because all despair and all the horror of evil expressed in one word are not as awful as silence.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark secrets. A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Soren Kierkegaard
God's Word refreshes our mind and God's Spirit renews our strength.
- TB Joshua
God never promised that we wouldn't have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, 'Be truly glad!...these trials are only to test your faith, to see whether or not it is strong and pureā¦' so if your faith remains strong after being tried in the test tube of fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of His return.
- Joel Osteen