Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel like I should say something that's probably worth saying... I feel like it's something worth saying, and one more person saying it is better.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Words are also actions.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.