And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.