Word Quotes

9067 Word quotes by 4674 unique authors

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work… — William Hazlitt
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal… — Smith Wigglesworth
When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and… — Richard Sibbes
Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word.… — Oswald Chambers
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears. — Reuben Archer Torrey
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. — William Gurnall
Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to… — Ole Hallesby
When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word. — John of Kronstadt
Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto… — Adoniram Judson
The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are… — Jim Cymbala
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however… — Albert Einstein
The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is… — Swami Vivekananda
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as… — Arthur Conan Doyle
People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your… — Paul Reiser
I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty — William Shakespeare
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. — Pearl S. Buck
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. — Jose Marti
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference… — Maude Royden
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. — Isak Dinesen
Never try to have the last word. You might get it. — Robert A. Heinlein
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death… — Daniel Berrigan
Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress! — Robert H. Schuller
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. — Andrew Johnson
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I… — Bill Gates

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