Top 100 Living Word Quotes
#2. You have got to build a firm foundation on the living word of God. You have got to study it, to store it in your heart, to gain the wisdom that it gives and apply it to your life.
Calvin W. Allison
#3. And thus, instead of a mere record of a revelation given in the past, we have the ever-living word of God; instead of a mere tradition however guarded, we have what we have all learned to call in a unique sense "the Scriptures.
Fred G. Zaspel
#4. One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
Madeleine L'Engle
#5. O Word of God incarnate ...
It is the golden casket
Where gems of truth are stored;
It is the heaven-drawn picture
Of Thee, the Living Word.
Walsham How
#7. What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent?
Mike Mason
#8. Through the written Word we discover the Living Word - Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#9. The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
Helen Keller
#10. God's tried and tested people will find their power in the sign spoken of in Exodus 31:12-18. They are to take their stand on the living word: "It is written." This is the only foundation upon which they can stand securely.53
Ellen G. White
#11. Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.
Francine Rivers
#12. None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility
Jim Elliot
#13. Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.
Johann Georg Hamann
#14. To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
Sebastian Franck
#16. In many homes and among so-called educated people - it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.
Billy Graham
#17. Living Word. God's word is not a dead letter. The life of His nature in His word also makes me live when I receive it and act on it with faith.
Louis McCall
#18. Everything thing we're doing is coming out of the living Word of God.
Louie Giglio
#19. There is a God and there is a Devil. The Bible is the living word of God and there are more Antichrists living among us then you could ever believe or even truly understand
Stephen Biro
#20. By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. The wonderful living Word of God is more precious than anything else that we have.
Louie Giglio
#23. In the church we call that the power of the Living Word. In the same way that God creates by speaking God's word, we too co-create (although on a much smaller scale) our church and the world around us by how we perceive it and the kinds of stories we tell about it.
Andrew Doyle
#25. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
Helen Keller
#26. Just as the Bible is God's written Word, so Jesus is God's living Word.
Billy Graham
#27. God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#28. I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
Chuck D
#29. Jesus reveals who He is through the living Word.
Jim George
#30. While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
Rachel Held Evans
#31. We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'
Ayn Rand
#32. God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.
Vincent De Paul
#33. The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#34. You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.
John Alexander Dowie
#35. When your girlfriend broke your heart, don't even say a word, just smile because she gives you the opportunity to find someone better than her.
Werley Nortreus
#36. We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids,
Gary Vaynerchuk
#37. She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.
Robin Hobb
#38. You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.
Franz Bardon
#39. The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.
Cheech Marin
#40. Doubt treats God's Word as human advice - but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.
Jim George
#41. When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
Damon Lindelof
#43. I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I never had before that living on this earth, growing older, and growing up in the true sense of the word is really about learning how to let go.
Katrina Kenison
#44. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#45. As we see in Ezra's life, committed study of Scripture can bring about much more than merely head knowledge. It can bring God himself into all the recesses of our being, for "the word of God is living and active" (Heb 4:12). Take
Richard J. Foster
#46. God's Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.
Colin S. Smith
#47. She's dead, said the doctor's wife, and her voice was expressionless, if it were possible for such a voice, as dead as the word it had spoken, to have come from a living mouth.
Jose Saramago
#48. I've been living alone for so long, everything about me's private. I'm surprised anyone's able to understand a word I say.
Kurt Vonnegut
#49. Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.
Rachel Caine
#50. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
T. S. Eliot
#51. Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.
Eve Curie
#52. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#53. It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
Francis Crick
#54. Plan your thoughts, think word-induced thoughts for a man is what he thinks ... think right
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#55. Our Heavenly Father - you established the criteria for hospitality in your Holy Word and then provided the strength to apply it to daily living. Eternity will not be long enough for us to express our love and gratitude to you!
Pat Ennis
#56. Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.
Steve Maraboli
#57. I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
Elizabeth Jennings
#58. Are you worried? About moving to Russia?" She smiled. "No, mio caro figlio. I'm not worried either." She kissed him. "My lovely, living boy," she said, kissing him between each word. "My hope" - kiss - "my happiness" - kiss - "my love, my life, my joy." Kiss, kiss, kiss.
Paullina Simons
#59. The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
D. Elton Trueblood
#60. When you get saved, act like you got some sense. You hear me? Whole lotta folks get saved and it take them an entire life before they start living by God's word. That's them ol' deathbed conversioners, them ol' heathens trying to get to heaven a lifetime too late.
Kiese Laymon
#61. Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
Anais Nin
#63. It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.
Terence Blacker
#64. Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don't allow them to define you.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#65. Don't live a day without your spiritual nourishment; mediation on the word of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#66. No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you change the word of God? Other religions are living. They are changing and evolving. Islam is fossilized. It allows no change. It can't be reformed.
Ali Sina
#67. I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
Evan Hunter
#68. No one likes the word "failure" and no one wants to ever experience failure ... but the truth is that our failures pave the way for our eventual success and we have only truly failed if we stop trying.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#69. Integrity - one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.
Salley Farquharson
#70. He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine.
Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar when you're clutching your intestines and choking on your own blood on his living room floor.
Jennifer Estep
#72. Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.
Joseph Campbell
#73. Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#74. A library is never -- for lovers of the written word -- simply a place for conserving or storing books but rather a sort of living creature with a personality and even moods which we should understand and learn to live with.
Francisco Marquez Villanueva
#75. When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
Boris Becker
#76. Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and hate the pen's nib as tamed animals do the raised whip.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
#77. God gives strength to the weak.
God grace is the power for godly living.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#80. Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.
Richard Livingstone
#81. How does the living organism avoid decay? The obvious answer is: By eating, drinking, breathing and (in the case of plants) assimilating. The technical term is metabolism. The Greek word () means change or exchange. Exchange of what?
Erwin Schrodinger
#82. And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
Mary Balogh
#83. In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.
Eknath Easwaran
#84. The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
Anna Akhmatova
#86. Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#87. To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.
Gustave Courbet
#88. The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.
Jerry Falwell
#89. My purpose for living, my role in this great scheme was clear to me from the first: to fall down, to worship, to praise, to wait upon the word of El."
"That sounds really boring."
"Really? Imagine the bliss of fulfilling one's created purpose.
Tosca Lee
#90. The idea that there is some kind of contradiction between the in-depth study of God's Word, so as to know what God has revealed about himself, and a living, vital faith is inherently self-contradictory.
James R. White
#91. Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.
Sri Chinmoy
#92. I have no problem living in Liverpool, but I think my wife and daughters deserve to enjoy every day to the full and live their lives - but they have to be at home all day. My wife doesn't speak a word of English, so she depends 100% on me. I live here with them. That's my world, that's my life.
Javier Mascherano
#93. Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness - the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God - one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.
Thomas Hughes
#94. Living independent might come as appalling as the word to anyone but me. The one who thinks it's a cool idea and worth it, has sure forgotten that independence comes with a price. If one doesn't still agree, you gotta try staying at a hostel.
Parul Wadhwa
#95. I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards.
Mike Huckabee
#96. God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was.
V.C. Andrews
#97. To illustrate: Everybody in the world knows the word "God," but there are few people in the world who know God. For most of us God has remained a word, a term, a power outside the self; God, Itself, has not become a living reality except to those few people who are known as mystics.
Joel S. Goldsmith
#98. Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.
Christopher Reeve
#99. In between saying something and achieving it, there is some pothole to fill; that's "doing it". Goals are pursued with the word "GO" and visions with the word "VENTURE". You can't be living always in the promise of the cloud; it must rain now!
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.
Rees Howells
