Quotes About The Power Of The Spoken Word

#1. 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

#2. Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.

T. B. Joshua

#3. The rain hung from his earlobes like delicate jewelry.

Dia Reeves

#4. Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

Pipilotti Rist

#5. Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Teresa Mummert

#6. I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#7. I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

Bill Veeck

#8. Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

William Zinsser

#9. Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#10. France will take on a militant tone, leaving its beautiful cultural tower to chase power after all these years.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#11. There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Joseph Conrad

#12. The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

William L. Shirer

#13. The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.

Charles Capps

#14. I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#15. A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

Frederick Buechner

#16. A true Dominant also knows the value of the spoken word. His words are chosen carefully with full awareness of their consequences, and he respects their power. And your words, Mr. Morrison, hold great power.

Ella Dominguez

#17. The word "open" and the expression "opening her legs" were, on her lover's lips, charged with such uneasiness and power that she could never hear them without experiencing a kind of internal prostration, a sacred submission, as though a god, and not he, had spoken to her.

Pauline Reage

#18. Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

Saadi

#19. 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

#20. We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).

Peter Kreeft

#21. Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#22. 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

#23. The resurrection is God's way of getting our attention.

Peter J. Gomes

#24. For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Sheila E.

#25. Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery.

Gregory Benford