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• Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Prayer, Thinking

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• The written word is the link between the past and the future.

  Lincoln Barnett

  Past, Links, Written

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• The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

  Hugh Mackay

  Magic, Lovely, Inevitable

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• All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Ends, Exception

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.6, eKitap Projesi

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• I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Book, Opinion, Written

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• The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Blood, Smell

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• Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

  Italo Calvino

  Police, Irony, States

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

  Cornelia Funke

  Sweet, Father, Passion

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• How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Eye, Sound, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

  Alicia Keys

  Flow, Knows, Written

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• The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

  Cornelia Funke

  Insects, Spoken Word, Eternal

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.289, Scholastic Inc.

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• They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

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• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Art, Poet, Substitutes

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• The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Book, Technology, Humanity

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• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Stress, Believe, Writing

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• After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

  Theodore Bikel

  Advent, Given, Mass

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• As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

  Peter Drucker

  Moving, Effectiveness, Steps

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.262, Routledge

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• The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.

  Greg Weisman

  Memories, Book, Teaching

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• The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

  Walter Moers

  Sea, Paper, Redundant

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.30, The Overlook Press

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• I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

  Sting

  Party, Believe, Commitment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Feelings, Emotion, Fantasy

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• It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

  Steven Spielberg

  Commitment, Bags, Way

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• But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or along the pale blue lines of private diaries, where people take communion with themselves.

  Betsy Lerner

  Believe, Writing, Blue

  Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.19, Penguin

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• Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Eye, Air

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