Quotes about Language

What openings of providence do we wait for? We can neither expect to be transported into the heathen world without ordinary means, nor to be endowed with the gift of tongues, &c. when we arrive there. These would not be providential interpositions, but miraculous ones. Where a command exists nothing can be necessary to render it binding but a removal of those obstacles which render obedience impossible, and these are removed already.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.