Quotes about Language

The covenant language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language.

we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the several parts of the play; presented in the form of action, not narration; by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

It is not easy to express the inexpressible

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.

They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

Don't use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.