Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the verse does not say the "fruits" of the Spirit, but fruit. The fruit, or result, of t...
Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also ...
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"-...
English has so many words that do not exist in Sharchhop, but they are mostly nouns, mostly things: machine, airplane, wristwatch. Sharchhop, on the other hand, reveals a culture of material economy but abundant, intricate familial ties and social re...
King Arthur: Cut down a tree with a herring? It can't be done. [the Knights of Ni scream and cover their ears] Knight 1: Don't say that word! King Arthur: What word? Knight 1: I cannot tell! Suffice to say, is one of the words the Knights of Ni canno...
What is a valley of tears? He was scourged, covered with spittle, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross. From this valley of tears you must ascend. But ascend where? ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
A word once spoken, an army of chariots cannot overtake it.
Swiftest horse cannot overtake the word once spoken.
Actions speak louder than words.
Rather weigh the will of the speaker, than the worth of the words.
The walking-stick reaches many lands, the word many more.
Do not use words that are too big for your mouth.
The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords.
A healthy ear can stand hearing sick words.
A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.
The word "enough" does not exist for water, fire, and women.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Every single book is a challenge.
I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.
