Given Quote by David Levithan

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand.…

— Helen Keller

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen…

— William H. Hunt

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them,…

— Leigh Hunt

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

— Frank Herbert

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle…

— Oscar Wilde

All my words are sort of shaped, all my words, my voice, my gestures, my imagination, are shaped by centuries, really. They are educated…

— Alice Rohrwacher

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing…

— Charles Spurgeon

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for…

— Johann Georg Hamann

“When we open the Bible we must do so in faith that God has the power to resurrect dead letters. As Scot McKnight says,…

— Adam S. McHugh

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and…

— Origen

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“Thus it would be a serious mistake to understand the images of Revelation as timeless symbols. Their character conforms to the contextuality of Revelation…

— Richard Bauckham