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Quotes About Word

For frantic boast and foolish word—Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!
~ Rudyard Kipling
when applied to Scripture, this approach does not serve the deeper longing of our heart—the longing to hear a word from God that is personal and intimate and takes us deeper into the love that our soul craves.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.
~ Ryan Adams
In the morning purpose, in the evening discuss the manner, what thou hast been this day, in word, work, and thought.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Christians also speak of the Bible as the revelation of God, indeed as the "Word of God." Yet orthodox Christian theology from ancient times has affirmed that the decisive revelation of God is Jesus. The Bible is "the Word" become words, God's revelation in human words; Jesus is "the Word" become flesh, God's revelation in a human life. Thus Jesus is more decisive than the Bible.
~ Marcus J. Borg
The human Jesus is the Word made flesh. The human Jesus is the wisdom of God. The human Jesus is the Spirit of God embodied in human life. In short, the meaning of all the statements about Jesus show us what a life full of God is like.
~ Marcus J. Borg
the Bible as a human response to God, the Bible as sacred scripture, the Bible as sacrament of the sacred, and the Bible as the Word of God.
~ Marcus J. Borg
The issue is no longer believing that Jesus was literally the Son of God, but appreciating the richness of meaning suggested by the multiplicity of Christological images. He was "the Son," yes, but also the incarnation of the Word, which was also the Wisdom of God. He was the Son of God, the logos of God, and the Sophia of God.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.
~ Marek Halter
Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.
~ Margaret Atwood
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
~ Margaret Atwood
Eating Fire Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll To be lit up from within vein by vein To be the sun
~ Margaret Atwood
But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messengers between this world and the other worlds, Pilar had said. Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.
~ Margaret Atwood
A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.
~ Margaret Atwood
I almost gasp: he's said a forbidden word. Sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore, not officially. There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that's the law.
~ Margaret Atwood
Language, like the mouths that hold and release it, is wet & living, each   word is wrinkled with age, swollen with other words, with blood, smoothed by the numberless flesh tongues that have passed across it.   Your language hangs around your neck, a noose, a heavy necklace; each word is empire, each word is vampire and mother.
~ Margaret Atwood
She is dying because she said. She is dying for the sake of the word. It is her body, silent and fingerless, writing this poem.
~ Margaret Atwood
Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.
~ Margaret Atwood
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered. I
~ Margaret Atwood
Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
~ Ivar Giaever
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.
~ R. Kent Hughes
The Word of God isn't for one particular season. It's for every season. But in its specific application, it's best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
~ Louie Giglio
Every time your faith is strengthened as you hear the Word, release it through your mouth to receive your miracle, for God's Word is out to prosper you!
~ Joseph Prince