There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

God uses language to create and command us.

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson