Quotes about Words

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.

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.

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.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.