Quotes about Language
We must be clear that whatever we say of God in such human concepts can never be more than an indication of Him; no such concept can really conceive the nature of God. God is inconceivable.
— Karl Barth
But people seem to have a great love for names; for to know a great many names, seems to look like knowing a good many things; though I should not be surprised, if there were a great many more names than things in the world.
— Herman Melville
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
— Jay Parini
Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.
— Wayne Dyer
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
— Charles Spurgeon
There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.
— Erwin McManus
Tone can be as important as text.
— Ed Koch
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.
— Gordon Hinckley
It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.
— John Wycliffe
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
— Joseph Brodsky
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— Sean Covey
As was his language so was his life.
— Seneca