The power of words in Christian preaching highlights how speech can build up or destroy, reflecting the heart's condition (Proverbs 18:21). Illustrations often depict words as seeds planted in the mind or as tools that carry lasting influence, emphasizing the need for careful, purposeful communication (James 3:5-6).
Bad words stick in the mind, showing the lasting influence of what we hear.
"I don't want to hear naughty words," said little Charlie to one of his school-fellows. "It does not signify," said the other boy: "they go in at one ear, and out at the other."—"No," replied Charlie. "The worst of it is, when naughty words get in they stick; so I mean to do my best to keep them out."
Empty words without substance are as worthless as unnecessary baggage.
I hate any thing that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without any thing in them. Hazlitt.
Many words may be spoken, but few truly hit the mark or have value.
In many words, there is often much fencing, but no weapons wherewith the enemy is wounded; there is much running, but no chariot that winneth the race; much seemeth to be said, but it is an empty moving of the tongue: and, if there be any item of worth in a multitude of words, it is by chance, as, when a blind man shooteth many arrows, perhaps one may be near the mark.
— Spencer
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