In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
—Franz Kafka
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
—Franz Kafka
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
—Plato
The best answer to a fool is silence. Every word you speak to a fool bounces back to you. Repaying offense with offense is just putting more wood on the fire, but he who meets his offender with peace has already defeated him with peace itself.
—Leo Tolstoy
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
—Michelangelo
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
—George Orwell
We must meditate daily, prayerfully, profoundly upon the Word if we are to maintain power. Many a man has run dry through its neglect.
Psalm 1:1-2
—R. A. Torrey
“May the Lord cause his Word to prove its power in us by its making us fruitful unto every good work to do his will.”
“We must have the Word of the Lord.
With this Word alone we can withstand the devil.”
— Charles Spurgeon
As a boy, I was not a Christian. I did not have the privilege of growing up in a home where Christ was known and loved. God spoke to me through a street preacher who quoted the words of Jesus, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
—AW Tozer
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
—John Milton
6 benefits to hearing the Word of God:
1. It exercises our humility.
2. It instructs our faith.
3. It lights us up with joy.
4. It inflames us with love.
5. It inspires us with zeal.
6. It lifts us up towards heaven.
— Charles Spurgeon
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
—Voltaire
Where I lack words I shall supply with deeds.
—Michelangelo
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Finance is a slave’s word.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christ pleads the cause of believers by his blood. Unlike other advocates, it is not enough for him to lay out only words, which is a cheaper way of pleading; but he pleads for us by the voice of his own blood (Heb.12:24).
—John Flavel
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I would earnestly urge all Christian workers to be sure to get some time alone for the prayerful study of the Word. The more of such time that you can get, the better will it be both for yourself and for others.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Socrates: God is perfectly simple; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.
—Plato
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
—Aldous Huxley
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps my enemies may have so much power given them from above, as to confine my body: but if I am bound, the word of the LORD will not be bound.
—George Whitefield
Only delusions and lies require artificial support. Truth can stand alone. Therefore the true word has no need of superficial, solemn ceremonies. Only lies need such devices.
—Leo Tolstoy
Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
—Blaise Pascal
Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.
—William Shakespeare
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
—Jean-Paul Sartre