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“I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.”

“Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.”

Writing Book Different Law Language Religious Sentences Cease Grammar Different Books

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?”

Moving Language Religious Wonder Moral Acceptance Judgment Phrases Adoption Secular Shrinks Disabled Judgmental Aversion Reluctance Lobotomy Being Judgmental

Author:Ellen Goodman

“My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.”

Moments Speak Language Given Religious My Own Views Speaks French

Author:Susan Sontag

“All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.”

Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others

“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.”

“Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.”

“I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Book Different Enough Stories Literature Language Religious Modern Fit Conversation Structure West Different Ways

Author:William P. Young

“Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.”

Language Religious Authority Obvious Suits Arrogance Prophet Dry Awe Scholar Killers Aggression Businessman Norm Worms Accustomed Beard Dreary Pluck Frenzy Colorless

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.”

People Long Ideas Language Religious Groups Special South South Africa Entity Civilisation

Author:P. W. Botha

“To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.”

Speak Language Religious Attempting

Author:George Santayana

“My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.”

World Political Language Social Religious Economic Relation Missions Indian Mutual Nonviolence English Language Englishmen

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers