Our Words Quotes - Page 2

Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.