Quotes about Words
Not every circumstance feels good. But we can always determine to be joyful. Yes, oftentimes joy is a choice, an act of the will. That's why grumbling and complaining is so dangerous. Negative thoughts and words take us down a path to where everything feels impossible, too hard, unfair. But positive words and thoughts—as an act of the will and as an expression of our salvation—lead us to joy.
— Darlene Zschech
So what does this mean for a church trying to reach out to an internet-based generation? Here are some internet browsing statistics that may cause you to rethink everything: average length watched of a single internet video: 2.7 minutes percent of page views that last less than 4 seconds: 17 percent of page views that last more than 10 minutes: 4 percent of words read on web pages with 111 words or less: 49 percent of words read on an average (593 words) web page: 286.
— James Emery White
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes.
— Randy Ingermanson
The Word ought to be exposed in the words
— Karl Barth
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
— Victor Hugo
Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.
— David O. McKay
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
— Hildegard of Bingen
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
— Martin Luther
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.
— Elton John
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!
— Pope Francis
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
— John Milton