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Contemplation is also the response to a call: a call from Him Who has no voice, and yet Who speaks in everything that is, and Who, most of all, speaks in the depths of our own being: for we ourselves ... -
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. -
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not y... -
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Conflict is a painful fact of life. Many of us have not experienced the trauma of war or the violence of racism, but we have all been wounded by words. -
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It’s your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words. -
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -
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[In comparison to ANE creation myths] God creates by word rather than sword. -
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I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed. -
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‘For my own way of expressing myself almost always disappoints me… I am saddened that my tongue cannot live up to my heart.’ -
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None of us complete each other, but we can add a few words to the lives of the people around us to help them understand God’s bigger plan for all of us. -
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. -
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. -
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I found that keeping company with poets, men and women who care about words and are honest with them, who respect and honor their sheer overwhelming power, kept me alert—biblically alert, Jesus alert. -
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Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated. -
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Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. -
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The diction used about Christ has been, and perhaps wisely, sweet and submissive. But the diction used by Christ is quite curiously gigantesque; it is full of camels leaping through needles and mounta... -
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As a language-user, I’m bound to all the audacious capacities and frustrating limits of words. We label, we name, we frame all of our experiences, past, present, and future. We give words to our inner... -
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The best prayers have often more groans than words. -
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Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much -
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. -
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Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious. -
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Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all... -
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation. -
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Have you heard God's blessing in your inmost being? Are the words, 'You are my beloved child, in whom I delight' an endless source of joy and strength? Have you sensed, through the Holy Sp... -
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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -
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I like hanging around words, listening to what they say. -
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. -
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. -
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The next time you say something deceitful, hurtful or proud, you cannot say “I don’t know what came over me.” Nothing came over you. Such sins come _out_of you. They come from a wellspring that is ver...
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