Age Quote by John Donne

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.…

— John Donne

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

— Thomas Keating

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings;…

— Jonathan Swift

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

— C. S. Lewis

“The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors…

— Thomas Paine

“contextualization is inevitable. As soon as you choose a language to speak in and particular words to use within that language, the culture-laden nature…

— Timothy Keller

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is…

— Craig Ferguson

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to…

— Walter Benjamin

“Culture shifts, but the Word of God remains.”

— Tremper Longman III