Quotes about Language

Just because you do not have the right word for God does not mean you are not having the right experience.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.