Top 100 Power Of The Word Quotes
#1. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.
J.R. Ortiz
#2. The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.
Sonia Choquette
#3. The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#4. The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.
Megan McKenna
#5. We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.
R.A. Torrey
#6. Many thousands, if not millions, of believers can also testify how the Holy Spirit worked in their lives through the sharp, penetrating power of the Word. The Scriptures are absolutely key in the process by which the Spirit gives-and strengthens-the faith of Christians.
R.C. Sproul
#7. I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
Sue Monk Kidd
#8. So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
Martin Luther
#9. Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
Simone De Beauvoir
#10. I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.
Joni Mitchell
#11. You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
Thomas Keneally
#12. When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#13. I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?
Laurie Simmons
#14. I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.
Huey Newton
#15. Rationalism ... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.
Paul Feyerabend
#16. I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it's changed my life.
Adrian Rogers
#17. Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.
Julia Alvarez
#18. One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.
Knut Hamsun
#19. The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
Robert Darnton
#20. To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#21. And by the power of a word, I begin my life again.
Paul Eluard
#22. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.
Mary Louise Pratt
#23. To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#24. We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.
John McCain
#25. How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
Joseph Campbell
#26. 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
#27. Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do ... even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.
Joyce Meyer
#28. Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?
Beth Moore
#29. There's a lot of power in the word 'no,' and a lot of people, like myself, need to know that.
Meghan Trainor
#30. We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Ellen G. White
#31. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
#32. It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
Oswald Chambers
#33. When you hear the word 'tyranny of magic' as we heard from Elder Caldell, you will know that it is the calling card of killers. Don't be fooled by their platitudes that is for the common good. Their real power is to strip us of our abilities so that they may easily conquer and rule us.
Terry Goodkind
#34. The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.
Charles Colson
#35. To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#36. Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties
busybodies
can prevent mutual accommodations by others.
Thomas Sowell
#37. My task is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. That
and no more, and it is everything.
Joseph Conrad
#38. But as I got older I realized that the horrors are all done by men, twisting the word of God to suit their own desires for power.
April White
#39. I might here find the magic word of power to banish the demon and set me free, so that I should no longer be a man beside myself.
George MacDonald
#40. Grant that I may experience the power of Thy Word before I deliver it.
Christmas Evans
#41. No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st
Have some malignant power upon my life:
If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
As ending anthem of my endless dolour.
William Shakespeare
#42. Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.
T. B. Joshua
#44. The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.
Julian Baggini
#45. Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
Ai Weiwei
#46. Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.
Annie Dillard
#47. The power of the gospel is the word of God ... nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?
R.C. Sproul
#48. Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.
John Bunyan
#49. To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?
Albert Einstein
#50. Nothing." That word held so much power: the power to deny someone your true feelings in a moment of vulnerability.
R.S. Grey
#52. The word 'glamour' comes from the word 'grammar', and since the Chomskyan revolution the etymology has been fitting. Who could not be dazzled by the creative power of the mental grammar, by its ability to convey an infinite number of thoughts with a finite set of rules?
Steven Pinker
#53. There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began.
Charles Hodge
#54. He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power,He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!
Zoroaster
#55. God nowhere asks anyone to have a large church. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about.
Jim Cymbala
#56. Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.
Carl F. H. Henry
#57. The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.
Maggie Nelson
#58. When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.
Elizabeth George
#59. Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.
Lord Chesterfield
#60. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true.
Henry B. Eyring
#61. The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the
language of word.
Kedar Joshi
#62. Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C.S. Lewis
#63. The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Power does not always shout its presence, my Lady, and each of the two hundred men armed behind you on this road represent a thousand more ready to die at your command. Every word you speak has the weight of those men.
Jean Gill
#66. Yet I cannot believe that this talisman of love has lost all its power and I still attempt to use it.
- Those who have never had occasion to feel sometimes the value of a word, of an expression, consecrated by love will find no sense in this phrase. (C. de L.)
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#67. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
Rebecca Solnit
#68. The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their efficient, working instrumentally with power by the word and ordinances.
John Owen
#69. Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel.
Richard Stearns
#70. Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
Catherynne M Valente
#71. and the power of reason." The word noetic,
Dan Brown
#72. The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for.
Miguel Ruiz
#73. The written word held a power she almost revered: to be able to write so as to influence the hearts and minds of other readers seemed nothing short of a miracle.
Patti Callahan Henry
#74. What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.
Matthew Henry
#75. Aedan offered a grateful smile, but he knew the weight of the nobleman's word. Facts would not be determined by truth but by power.
Jonathan Renshaw
#76. Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#77. Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
P.D. James
#78. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Miguel Ruiz
#79. I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.
Christopher Buckley
#80. Our jobs as prophetic singers is to gain an understanding of the Word, know it in our hearts, live it in our lives, and open our mouths to sing it. The Holy Spirit then anoints it with His power, and lives are changed; things are shifted in the spirit as we sing.
Anna Blanc
#81. A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!
Mehek Bassi
#82. The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!
John Gaver
#83. Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.
Michael Dirda
#84. Concering the power of the written word
Julie Hearn
#85. The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.
Asa Mahan
#86. The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.
Laurie Penny
#87. Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and depending on Him in prayer.
Jerry Bridges
#89. Every man at time of Death,
Would fain set forth some saying that may live
After his death and better humankind;
For death gives life's last word a power to live,
And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#90. The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
Markus Zusak
#91. The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ ... Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.
Pope Leo I
#92. I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.
Annie Lennox
#93. In all other matters I will yield to any man whatsoever; but I have neither the power nor the will to deny the Word of God.
Martin Luther
#94. We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
Jerry Bridges
#95. The power of speech is one of the greatest powers God has given us. With the tongue, man can praise God, pray, preach the Word, and lead the lost to Christ. What a privilege!
Warren W. Wiersbe
#96. 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
#97. The Word of God is a seamless garment, and men who deny its law deny its eschatology also, and are deprived of God's power. It is not surprising, therefore, that this is an era of impotence for the church.
Greg L. Bahnsen
#98. I have done this - made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.
Jennifer Donnelly
#99. Of all the great forces which have formed the past, none has disappeared more effectively, or when recalled retains less of its once compelling force, than the power of the spoken word.
R.W. Southern
#100. There are many kinds of powers in the world - military power, power of the written word, intellectual power. We've tried and failed to bring peace with these kind of powers. The greatest power is the power of love.
Mata Amritanandamayi
