Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"What I like to do is to treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of booksso many blinding lightssplashing across the pages in a million bits and pieces all of which were words, words, words, and each
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the difference
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
On the day that Karl Marx died, March 14, 1883, his housekeeper came to him and said, "Tell me your last words, and I'll write them down."
Marx replied, "Go
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Brethren
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There are 800,000 words in the English language, 300,000 are technical terms. The average person knows 10,000 words and uses 5,000 in everyday speech. A journalist knows approximately 15,000 and
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 1, 2012
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WELL SAID
A woman, who was a terrible cook, gave a preacher a pie to take home to his family. After tasting the pie, they simply threw the rest in the trash, unable to eat it.
The next Sunday, the woman asked the preacher, "How did you like my
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FOOL
D.L. Moody was preaching once and got a note before he preached. All that was on the note was the word "Fool". He stepped up to the front and said, "This is interesting. I usually get letters from people without a name on it.
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"I ride the bus!"
My wife works in a Middle School. The job can be … let’s say challenging … sometimes. But she got tired of complaining whenever people asked how school was going. (Maybe that scripture in Philippians 2 had something to do with it: Do everything without complaining or arguing.)
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