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“The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.”

Way Needs Humans Would Be Individual Speak Language Views Risk Safety Sacred Longing Satisfaction Embedded Delicacy Connectedness Eros

Author:Allan Bloom

“When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.”

Knows Use Young Language Challenges Sacred Average Cows Australian Politically Correct Use Of Language Sacred Cows

Author:Tony Abbott

“Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.”

Giving Christian Language Hours Lord Practice Study Six Sacred Eight Christian Inspirational Hinder

Author:Hudson Taylor

“I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.”

Reason Law Father Language Clear Authority Sacred Scripture Graves Manifestation Affected Comprehensive

Book:The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises

Source: The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises

“Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.”

Language Levels Lord Protect Gold Sacred Rings Bows English Language Like Something

Author:Lynne Truss

“When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.”

God Use Body Today Science Universe Language Felt Understanding Wonder Tools Mathematics Sacred Complexity Awe Mechanic Celestial Researchers Hens Celestial Bodies

Author:William J. Clinton

“The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way. For many Christians, however, that language seems abstract, even (sadly) foreign. Dean Nelson lovingly explores those spaces of encountering God; his luminous book has helped me see anew the sacred in the ordinary. I am grateful.”

Way Long Book Seems Christian Used Names Language Church Space Grace Ordinary Concepts Grateful Sacred Abstract Inward Sacraments Dean Luminous Nelson I Am Grateful

Author:Lauren F. Winner

“For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.”

Language Rich Sacred Foreign Language

Author:Fabrice Luchini

“There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”

Kind Language Practice Sacred Handle Verbs Sorcery

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.”

Language Common Sacred London Royal Vulgar English Language Profane Barbaric Civilised

Book:The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

“As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.”

Running Language Wall Garden Sacred Dumb Bees Remembrance Dessert Herbs Rosemary Herbs And Spices

Author:Thomas More

“There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.”

Spirit Lying Religion Spirituality Language Holy Ordinary Garden Sacred Awe

Book:365 Tao: Daily Meditations

Source: 365 Tao: Daily Meditations