Words

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Words are the soul's ambassadors,
who go Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

James Howell, writer (c. 1594-1666)

We all have feelings and opinions on most subjects. We even have feelings and opinions about words. There are words for every purpose and season it seems.

We even have positive feelings about certain words and negative feelings about others, and no two people's two lists are the same.

Some of us even have feelings about words. Words are more than total of their sum. Words have power to evoke whole worlds.

We even get frustrated that words can't express how we feel when we talk about the people we love, or even of love itself.

We have very special feelings about certain words. Church people have meanings for certain words that come from years of hearing them. The rest of the world probably doesn't know them as we do, or cares to. Or, they have heard them, but know them differently, as words of coersion, oppression.

Here we have a collection of writers, philosphers, politicians, and other celebrated figures to say a few choice words on a few of our churchy words. Perhaps they can be your words, too .