Quotes About Words

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.

If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.

This is why the past seems perfect, a time of proportion and order, because it is immersed in speech. For animals, memory might reside as a sensation, a resonance in the nerves, or in the meat of the spine. But for humans, the past cannot be described except in words. It is nowhere else.

Hill gave her a ring in which were etched the words "Je t'aime." As Sylvanus Thayer, the father of West Point, had said so long ago, all the important things are written in French.

If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.

But I answer, that the testimony of the Spirit is superior to reason. For as God alone can properly bear witness to his own words, so these words will not obtain full credit in the hearts of men, until they are sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away

No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought. So profuse and varied, indeed, is our use of these words that it is not easy to define just what we mean by them.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

At 9:15 on Thursday morning, June 4, while Jordan Delreese was bludgeoning his two young children to death, I was sitting in Dr. Hamburger's consulting room at the Sunny Isles Geriatric Clinic with my father, who was just then at a loss for words.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

Everything in life is writable.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?