Quotes about Words

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.

Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times."

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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

If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.