Written by Pastor Jack Wellman17 Amazing Quotes about the Power of Words
God spoke the universe into existance. Our words have the power to hurt or empower. Words matter to God, and He wants them to matter to us. It’s hard to always speak in love, but with God all things are possible!
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Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.
- John Stott
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We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of eloquence behind which lies no love.
- Henry Drummond
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If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
- Martin Luther
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God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.
- George Whitefield
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From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
- James 3:10
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Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two: your life preaches all week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words, from God.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
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O Lord, keep our hearts, keep our eyes, keep our feet, and keep our tongues.
- William Tiptaft
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The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
- Psalm 37:30
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
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When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.
- Dwight L. Moody
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
- Charles Spurgeon
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If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.
- Thomas Fuller
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1
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If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? ... You have the cure to death ... get out there and share it.
- Kirk Cameron
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Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
- James 5:16
If you’ve ever doubted the power of your own words, I hope that these quotes and verses have helped you to understand how to always speak life!
