Quotes About Language

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

I am god...to the dislexic segment of the population.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.

Facts are God's native tongue.

Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk—just once—in prose like other people.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.