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Quotes About Word

inspiration literally means "God-breathed." Because Scripture is breathed out by God—because it originates from Him—it is true.
~ Ron Rhodes
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~ Ron Stone
After (a rebours) came the Martyrdom, spoken often of as "I've had such a busy morning!", the saints' final word.
~ Ronald Firbank
the wonder is not that God can answer prayer, but that he does, when we so imperfectly meet the conditions clearly laid down in his Word.
~ Rosalind Goforth
In The Sentence, books are matters of life and death, and readers reach through unknowable realms to maintain some connection to the written word. So with the bookstore.
~ Louise Erdrich
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
tis true, 'tis pity, and 'tis pity, 'tis true.' what delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs. Harmon Andrews!
~ Lucy Maud Montogmery
the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.
~ Lyn Hejinian
Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The compulsion for me to get my cotton-pickin' fingers on my fellow man is the natural result of my belief that I have the word. If I do have the word and feel surrounded by unmolded clay, I have no choice but to mold. When I do this, I begin playing God, and as a result usually raise the devil.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Vapid!" Lisa seized on the word with delight. "That's exactly what she is! Vapid!" She said it again with pleasure.
~ Maeve Binchy
Honesty is all I've got, she said finally, speaking in a low voice. I don't have family. I don't have beauty, or a man. I don't have money, and I sure as hell don't have a future. All I've got to prop up my pride is my word. Her chin rose. When Jenny Jones says something, you can bet your last peso that it's true.
~ Maggie Osborne
Those immigrants, in turn, sent word back to Roseto about the promise of the New World, and soon one
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Sometimes, proof is just another word to prolong suffering
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Strange Type I wrote: in the dark cavern of our birth. The printer had it tavern, which seems better: But herein lies the subject of our mirth, Since on the next page death appears as dearth. So it may be that God's word was distraction, Which to our strange type appears destruction, Which is bitter.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Moses sinks down, in defeat: 'Unimaginable God, inexpressible thought of many meanings! So I am defeated! So everything I thought was madness and cannot and must not be spoken. Oh word, oh word that I lack!' The
~ Malcolm MacDonald
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?
~ Trai Byers
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
~ John Nelson Darby
I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a paltry hommelette.' 'An omelette?' 'Yes, your word is not worth a dam.
~ Amitav Ghosh
May the dog-mother rut with a dead devil!
~ Amy Tan
the legends of friendship and love between man and man, woman and woman, or man and woman, lies this hideous narcissistic image of the single, all-sufficient self, the primitive generative force which fecundates itself, which in its irrepressible ebullience threw off a planetary system that forms the whole corpus of mythological worship and love. "In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh.
~ Anais Nin
Le bonheur n'est pas une chose; c'est une pensée. Ce n'est pas un fait; c'est une invention. Ce n'est pas un état; c'est une action. Disons le mot: le bonheur est création.[...] C'est une praxis, disait- Aristote, et point une poiésis.
~ André Comte-Sponville