Quotes about Word

How wonderful it is to be surprised by God's call, to embrace his word, and to walk in the footsteps of Jesus... Your life will become richer and more joyful each day!

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God's life in us.

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.

Andrew Bonar wrote in his diary on December 13, 1880, "I long more and more to be filled with the Spirit, and to see my congregation moved and melted under the Word, as in great revival times, 'the place shaken where they are assembled together,' because the Lord has come in power.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.