Quotes about Names

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.

At the very least, we must tell our stories, mustn't we? Speak the names? You know, there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our

At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours...Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names

And as she lost consciousness of outer things, and her name and her personality and her appearance, and whether Mr. Carmichael was there or not, her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and names, and sayings, and memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting over that glaring, hideously difficult white space, while she modelled it with greens and blues.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.