Quotes for All
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, ‘Are these words true?’ If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, ‘Are the necessary?’ At the last gate, we ask, … Read more
Our word ‘idiot’ comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters. Edith Hamilton
As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul. Edmond Jabes
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment. Eartha Kitt
Don’t take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction. E. Haldeman-Julius
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. Freya Stark
True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, … Read more
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The World’s a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos’tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We’re gather’d, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven. Francis Quarles
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate? Francis Chan