Bending Quote by Helen Barrett Montgomery

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary…

— Helen Barrett Montgomery

“Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters…

— William Carey

“Since—and this is why it changed how I read the Bible—God chose to communicate in language, since language is always shaped by context, and…

— Scot McKnight

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find…

— Ernst Cassirer

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

— Donald Miller

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

— Girolamo Savonarola

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they…

— P.D. Ouspensky

when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not…

— Lily Dougall

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of…

— Chinua Achebe

If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the…

— Wendell Berry

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;…

— Eugene Peterson

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley