Word Quotes

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Read the Word. Consume the Word until it consumes you. Believe the Word. Act on the Word.

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone … the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds … that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

And panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for ‘all weapons.

I never use that word, retire.

Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else.

I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.