actions speak louder than words?

i disagree wholeheartedly.  and it's probably because i do this writing thing.  i hold such a value on words that it's probably insane to somebody else.  words should be genuine, carefully thought out and executed, maneuvered and sculpted to the person speaking them and hearing them and should always be from an honest place.  though most times, i'm pretty sure people don't speak with all of those requirements but if we did, actions and words would be held to the same regard.  


when i say something, i mean it.  i really mean it from the core of myself. whether it's "shut the f.ck up" or 'i'm not in love." but i believe that people have gotten so used to saying things they don't mean or hearing things that someone else doesn't mean that this 'actions speak louder than words' mantra has gone too far.  


you know why i think words matter so much?  because when you're standing at the altar ready to give your life to God or your soon to be husband/wife, people don't see what you've been doing for the last few years.  there's no videotape of how you went to church on your Sabbath or how you held his hand through cancer, they hear the WORDS YOU SAY, THE VOWS YOU TAKE.  you have to mean the words that are coming out of your mouth to create whichever union is supposed to take place.  if actions were so much more important than words, why the ceremony at all?


and another thing, people get to know God through reading the scriptures.  it's hard to say what God has or hasn't done for you because you can't physically grasp it, much less understand it.  you just hope that God has your best interest at heart.  but the Bible is written, it's all words.  words that you can literally hold on to in trying times, evidence that God has, is and will do everything in His power to bring you to eternal salvation.  if you want to believe in God, you first have to listen.  the power is in the word.  i don't know how we ended up in a place where words are not held to the highest standard, where contracts are more intimidating that promises but i believe in the power of words.  i believe that words and actions are two powerful forces that work together to bring us to higher levels in our relationships.  i don't believe one overpowers the other, i believe in the balance of equality and i want to believe in the things people say.  but more than anything else, i want people to mean the things they say because there should be no sound louder than the truth itself.