Quotes About Words

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.

If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.

I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Good words will not give me back my children.

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.