Quotes About Word

The most quieting considerations under affliction are those that are fetched from the word of God.

The tone is not the writer's voice, but the intimacy of the silence he imposes upon the word. This implies that the silence is still his—what remains of him in the discretion that sets him aside. The tone makes great writers, but perhaps the work is indifferent to what makes them great.

Order! As happens with all political blunderers, the word was ceaselessly upon his lips, and nothing could have persuaded him to admit that the world had changed even a little in the last century.

An expression and what it expresses strangely alternate and, through a sort of false recognition, make us feel that the word has inhabited the thing from all eternity...One of the effects of language is to efface itself to the extent that its expression comes across.

I don't know him. I'm done in. I can't come," said Kildare. "Sure, you don't know half the people that come here yammering to see you," said the orderly, "but the word's gone around this precinct that nobody counts except Doctor Kildare.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

No, of course not. I just feel content," she said carefully. "That's an old person's word," said Ethan.

The realtor was a tool.

Listening leads us more inside ourselves whereas seeing leads us more outside—the work of seeing itself, that is. And, therefore, we will be far more blessed with eternal life by the power of listening than by the power of sight. The act of listening allows me to hear the eternal Word spoken with me, whereas sight leads me astray, to what is outside myself. In listening, I suffer (or allow); in seeing, I work.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Oh, the way that word is thrown around!" she said. "Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer.

Damn, Gabriel. I didn't touch her." "Your lips were on hers. That's touching," Gabriel growled. [...] "I am the Gabriel. I run this pack, and if any of them" –he looked past her to the Hound on the floor– "want to challenge me over you,all they need to is say the word." The Hound on the floor spoke up. "I turned her down." "Not because she lacks anything," Gabriel growled.

The English Bible has often been called a preacher's Bible. Written to be spoken, written to spread the word in the language of the land, a cause for which Wycliffe and Tyndale and hundreds of other English Christians had lived and died.

Toda a estória se quer fingir verdade. Mas a palavra é um fumo, leve demais para se prender na vigente realidade. Toda a verdade aspira a ser estória. Os factos sonham ser palavra, perfumes fugindo do mundo.

A nossa vida é feita de esperas. E, afinal, basta uma palavra, uma só palavra para sermos deuses, isentos de esperas.

Contar una historia es echar sombras a la lumbre. En ese preciso instante, todo lo que la palabra revela lo consume el silencio. Solo quien reza entregando por completo el alma sabe lo que significa ese arder y esa caída de la palabra en los abismos.

If you are a true logos and I am a true logos, then there is the possibility of the dia-logos—a true dialogue...What is true dialogue in a world like ours? Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio—the union of true communion...Profound communion, the flow of celestial language, becomes possible when we are speaking on the firm foundation of the Logos, the Word who became flesh, the One who redeemed the universe.

Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects. Monday

Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.

The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea.

Christ is Lord, Christ is victorious, and Christ conquers by cruciform faithful resistance: not by inflicting but by absorbing violence; not by actually killing but by speaking his powerful word.

We are the ones called to be: …blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which [we] shine like stars in the universe as [we] hold out the Word of life… (Philippians 2:15-16).

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. —1 JOHN 2:3–5

She's been used more often than a jailhouse condom.