Quotes about Language
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be
— Mahatma Gandhi
God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
— Philip James Bailey
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
— Ashley Montagu
In good writing, words become one with things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
— Ernest Hemingway