Bible Quote by Martin Luther

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German…

— Heinrich Boll

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

— Ashley Zukerman

“His preaching isn’t one of concepts, but of experience, and the messages are often those that have been passed down through tradition rather than…

— Ora-Jay Eash

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

— Miranda Otto

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most…

— Dylan Thomas

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary.…

— Paul Engle

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

— Paul Auster

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

— Frank Moore Cross

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and…

— Duke Ellington

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it,…

— Anita Brookner

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was…

— John Irving

I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by…

— Ron Currie Jr