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Quotes About Word

V'lane extends his hand when I don't move. "Come, we must speak privately." "Why?" "What subtle nuance of the word 'private' do you not understand?" "Probably the same subtle nuance of the word 'no' you never understand.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The Word is, by definition, immanent in the divinity and active in the world, and as such the Father's revelation. A revelation of the Father without the Logos and his incarnation would be like speaking without words.
~ Karl Rahner
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
~ Kate Atkinson
Location is a magical word. I used to believe it was related to cancer, that's one of the cancer questions. Where is the location? I think of location as being a word that falls somewhere between cancer and real estate.
~ Kate Braverman
You can't really trust any man who is religious. If your interests conflict with the religion the man breaks his word and betrays you and thinks he's right to do so.
~ Katharine Burdekin
most people associate bidets with France, and the French word is used in English, Spanish and Italian, it was the Italians who invented an oblong vessel,
~ Katherine Ashenburg
If theology is to speak adequately of the gospel of Jesus Christ, it must be thoroughly committed to hearing "the powerful witness of the 'tremendous' Word that always speaks against us so that we can learn to stop speaking against it.
~ G C Berkouwer
The authority of God's Word ... We must be aware of the dangers of an experience-theology ... We must be critical of the suggestion that all scriptural questions could possibly be solved by excluding them on the basis of a childlike faith ... We must warn against a subjectification of authority, which might only become reality through acknowledgment ... We must also speak of the unique authority which can only be acknowledged and experienced on the way.
~ G C Berkouwer
The authoriyty of God's Word ... is (known) in the way of the Spirit, who leads man to obedience and draws him in his full existence to the gospel.
~ G C Berkouwer
Theology is not an excursion into the stratosphere that lies beyond scriptural sppech in time: it may not travel beyond the borders of faith's perspective. Beyond the word of Scripture we dare not go, in speech or theological reflection; for it is in this word that God's love in Jesus Christ is revealed. There is nothing beyond that.
~ G C Berkouwer
Scripture is the Word of God because the Holy Spirit witnesses in it of Christ.
~ G C Berkouwer
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God
~ G C Berkouwer
Scripture is the Word of God because the Holy Spirit witnesses in it of Christ. This understanding of the relation between the Spirit and Scripture opens up a perspective that is not locked in the past.
~ G C Berkouwer
Faith is decisively determined by the object of faith, namely, God and His Word. This does not ... imply that Scripture ... derives its authority from the believer's faith: this idea is already rendered untenable by the very nature of faith, which rests on and trusts in the Word of God.
~ G.C. Berkouwer
The confession of the testimony of the Spirit was not intended to give a rational and theoretical solution or explanation to the relationship between Word and Spirit ... the mystery of Word and Spirit remains unfathomable ... Every attempt to somehow clarify the mystery remains revealingly unsatisfactory ... The mystery cuts across every exclusive formulation.
~ G.C. Berkouwer
One cannot mount from reality to the righteousness of God, because reality can only be known through the explaining word of revelation. The Light that illumines the world is found only in faith.
~ G.C. Berkouwer
Give Win back his hat," I told Natty. "It looks good on me," she said, batting her eyelashes. I took it off her head and handed it to Win. "Thanks for babysitting," I said. "Stop infantilizing me," Natty protested. "That's a very good word," Win commented. "Thank you," Natty replied. "I happen to know lots of them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Yes, Dad. Dad is what I am. Dad is what I became. The father of Maya. Maya's dad. Dad. What a word. What a little big word. What a word and what a world!
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Yes. Dad. Dad is what I am. Dad is what I became. The father of Maya. Maya's dad. Dad. What a word. What a little big word.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Preacher: "This is the word of God!" Constantine: "The edited word of God
~ Garth Ennis
He that hath sinned In body, word, or thought, Or in anything That is called sinful, Doing not that which is righteous, But doing much that is unrighteous-- This fool after the dissolution of the body, Shall go to perdition.
~ Gautama Buddha
His voice, what he said, remains, and it is here, all of those voices are here, in what I am telling you. If in the beginning there was the word, then perhaps, with humility at the smallness of our powers, in words a small part of us can return.
~ Brian Francis Slattery
I had some envy of the man who could use the word "chicanery" with such confidence.
~ Brian Friel
I am saying that these so-called signs and wonders of Jesus raising a little girl and the man, Lazarus, from the dead are unsubstantiated rumors and legends. There is no resurrection and there is no afterlife spoken of in the Scriptures. Pharisees draw their arguments from non-Scriptural sources and traditions, which we Sadducees simply do not recognize as authoritative. We alone stand on the Word of our God." Annas had a snooty arrogance to him.
~ Brian Godawa