Quotes about Words

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

Words let you know what is in someone's mind, deeds let you know what is in someone's heart, and character lets you know what is in someone's soul.

Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.

And many other places to the like purpose. And therefore men can be justified by their words, no otherwise than as evidences or manifestations of what is in the heart. And it is thus that Christ speaks of the words in this very place, as is evident by the context, ver. 34, 35. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart," &c. The words

Bonhoeffer had always struggled with the "problem" of being charming. He mistrusted it and wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.

You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

There are tines in the prophetic ministry when words we receive for others must stay in the throne room...they are more powerful when converted into crafted prayer and spoken to the father than when put into prophetic language and ministered to human beings.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

What an important lesson for all of us! The words that come out of our mouths are a direct indicator of what is in our hearts. Idle