Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
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