Quotes about Words

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. —JOHN 15:11

Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. (Revelation 22:7)

Philip's words. Though the story was by now well known to him, still it held a powerful resonance. What he saw and heard was not merely a retelling of the Lord's coming, but rather the fulfillment of words written centuries before by their most revered prophet.

In some ways, negative self-talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as an athlete is more likely to make the shot after visualizing making it, she's also more likely to miss it after visualizing a miss. Your words, whether externally spoken or internally absorbed, shape your future.

Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.

Where there is injustice, one must stand against it. Where there is suffering, one must be the hands and feet of our Lord. Where there is opportunity for good, one must seize it. As go our words, so must our acts.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

No, that night, words were his weapon of choice. And they had inflicted far deeper wounds than his fists would in the months that followed.

The main vehicle of both blessings and curses is words. Such words may be spoken or written or merely uttered inwardly.

It is to be called a fearful Word, because of the truth and faithfulness of it. The Scriptures cannot be broken. Here they are called the Scriptures of truth, the true sayings of God, and also the fear of the Lord, for that every jot and tittle thereof is for ever settled in heaven, and stand more steadfast than doth the world—Heaven and earth, saith Christ, shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away (Matt 24: