Garth

“When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.”
― Timothy Keller

“who”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers

“Language - given to us to glorify God, to receive the revelation of God, to witness to the truth of God, to offer praise to God - is constantly at risk. Too often the living Word is desiccated into propositional cadavers, then sorted into exegetical specimens in bottles of formaldehyde. We end up with godtalk:
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word ... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?'
My concern is that we use God's gift of language in consonance with the God who speaks.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers

“That love proceeds out of the trust that God gives in reestablishing the relationship between himself and his human creatures. Luther found a natural part of trusting in God to be in conversing with this God who created through his Word and proved himself to be a God of conversation and community. Thus Luther looked to patriarchs and prophets as models of hearing God’s Word, of repeating it to others, and of praying.”
― Robert Kolb, Luther and the Stories of God: Biblical Narratives as a Foundation for Christian Living