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“In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. ("Alpha and Omega")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculous, but yet triumphant life, the everlasting antipodes and deadly enemy of beauty. I cannot say I despise you - for I am honest. You are stronger than I. I have no armour for the struggle between us, I have only the Word, avenging weapon of the weak. Today I have availed myself of this weapon. This letter is nothing but an act of revenge - you see how honourable I am - and if any word of mine is sharp and bright and beautiful enough to strike home, to make you feel the presence of a power you do not know, to shake even a minute your robust equilibrium, I shall rejoice indeed. -”
― Thomas Mann, Tristan

“We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“The “Word of Godâ€� is not simply the Christian Bible but exists in a threefold form: “The Wordâ€� incarnate (Jesus Followersâ€� King), the word prophesied and proclaimed (Prophets), and the word in scripture (Bible). All three are the self-disclosure of God, The One & Only ...in three, distinct & unique Persons, Father, Son, & Holy Spirit.”
― Gary F. Patton

“Jesus is a descendant of David, the beloved of God. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who was born into this world and died and rose again. Saint John calls him the Word and the Light. When he died, he did so as atonement for our sins, and when he rose, he did so to defeat the power and curse of death and hell on this once-holy world. Do you believe in him?”
― David Holdsworth, Angelos

“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest Act of all, for it is the Word. And this is precisely why He has made an infinity of lesser gods, creating them in His own image, so that we can do the lesser things on His behalf. We are His hands and arms and feet and mouths. We are His answers to your prayers, enacted along the great Framework of Being.”
― Vera Nazarian, Cobweb Forest

“What does it mean to be healthy? Heal Thy.”
― J.R. Rim

“The Word is living and active. It will conform you by dividing you. And in the dividing, miracle of miracles, it will render you whole.”
― Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

“Faith without any practical application of the Word will cause you to doubt along the way. When in doubt, you will not conquer the right mountains. Have faith that is inspired by the living Word, and you will never be the same.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“The creational scale—in tandem with sacred vowels—was used to fashion the universe and all life herein. The world, you might say, was literally spoken—or rather, sung—into being.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“There's always somebody that doesn't get the word.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Why is it that when people who use a word like ‘trannyâ€� to describe transgender people, are told, by a transgender person, that the word is derogatory and offensive towards transgender people, they rally and insist that it isn't? To deny this in the face of someone who is on the receiving end of this abuse â€� and who has just informed you that it is offensive â€� only adds to and compounds the abuse.

To claim that a transgender person is ‘over reacting� when insulting terms are used against trans people, and that a cisgender person is easily capable of understanding life from a transgender perspective... While making facetious statements like ‘just because you're confused about your gender...� only adds injury to the insult. You clearly do NOT understand, and you've just proved it.

To crown it all, saying in your defense that you're ‘not transphobicâ€� because you watch ‘tranny pornâ€� does NOT make you a cis-ally to transgender people!”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“Only the entire universe can teach the entire answer.”
― Joanne P. Miller, Zen and the Gospel of Thomas

“For thirty years of His life on earth,
The Word was silent before the people.
For fifty centuries the world had waited for the word
that its Maker would speak.
And finally, with the people before Him
On a sloping meadow overlooking a lake,
The Word spoke His word.
The Way revealed His way.
And He Who had taken the lowest place
Spoke to His creatures of lowliness, saying:
"Blessed are the meek.
The poor in spirit,
Blessed are you who weep now."
He Who had come not seeking praise. said:
"Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you."
These were the first words that the Word spoke to mankind,
Being meek, being Himself reviled,
And weeping with those who weep.”
― Hieromonk Damascene

“He has revealed Himself generally to us through creation, but more specifically through the Word.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“It is easy for the someone who reads the Word to pray, because the Word encourages one to be spiritually sound and safe.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

“The language of Heaven is clear to those who read the Word and pray.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

“The heart that remains light will bear the weight of the world”
― Rafael J. Davila