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Quotes About Word

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
~ Sarah Vowell
Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880. ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.
~ Sarah Vowell
I have a policy about that word soul. It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye.
~ Sarah Vowell
What makes the new ark holy? The old ark contained the word of God written in stone; Mary contained in her womb the Word of God Who became man and dwelt among us. The ark contained manna; Mary contained the living bread come down from heaven. The ark contained the rod of the high priest Aaron; Mary's womb contained the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ. In the heavenly temple, the Word of God is Jesus, and the ark in whom he resides is Mary, His mother.
~ Scott Hahn
The word hairesis in Greek means choice; a heretic is one who is able to choose.
~ John A. Buehrens
You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.
~ John and Brand, Josh Falsey
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
~ John Barth
Wabe. Maybe it's initials for something like Will All Babies Expectorate.
~ John Bellairs
Sextus had little Aramaic, but he could hear the word 'Gehenna', the name of the refuse pit where the evil dead would be buried, being repeated over and over again.
~ John Blackburn
It's time we stop using Facebook to post pictures of kittens and start using it as a platform to expose darkness and to declare the word of the Lord! End-time warriors awakened in the fire of the coming Church will use every vehicle they can to awaken others!
~ John Burton
Always an innovator, Agnes de Mille found the solution and coined the word "choreographer" for her work on the Broadway musical Oklahoma!
~ John C. Tibbetts
This is how we can distinguish true religion from superstition: when the Word of God directs us, there is true religion; but when each man follows his own opinion, or when men join together to follow an opinion they hold in common, the result is always concocted superstition.
~ John Calvin
For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God's face, shines.
~ John Calvin
the church of God can be established in no other way than by the Word. True
~ John Calvin
We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is a kind of labyrinth — a labyrinth to us inextricable, if the Word do not serve us as a thread to guide our path; and that it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.
~ John Calvin
Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In
~ John Calvin
He is always careful to take account of the unity and harmony of Scripture teaching. His expositions are not therefore afflicted with the vice of expounding particular passages without respect to the teaching of Scripture elsewhere and without respect to the system of truth set forth in the Word of God.
~ John Calvin
So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets — and even the gospel itself — as without value.
~ John Calvin
What then is the Word of God which gives us life; what but the law, the prophets, and the gospel? Anyone
~ John Calvin
the Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or
~ John Calvin
But observe, that men then revolted from God, when, having   forsaken his word, they lent their ears to the falsehoods of Satan.   Hence we infer, that God will be seen and adored in his word; and,   therefore, that all reverence for him is shaken off when his word is   despised.
~ John Calvin
Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.
~ John Calvin
Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.
~ John Calvin
Assuredly, when the word of God is despised, all reverence for Him is gone. His majesty cannot be duly honoured among us, nor his worship maintained in its integrity, unless we hang as it were upon his lips.
~ John Calvin