Lamin Sanneh quotes
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“The original language of Christianity is translation.”
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“Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they beat their sacred drums for him until the stars skipped and danced in the skies. After that dance the stars weren't little anymore. Christianity helped Africans to become renewed Africans, not remade Europeans.”
-- Lamin SannehSource : Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.43, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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“God was in Christ, reconciling the world.”
-- Lamin SannehSource : Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.71, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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“Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”
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“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 35, 1895.
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“Poetry is what is gained in translation.”
Source : "Raw Material by Derek Mahon - review" by Aingeal Clare, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.
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“In art as in life, some things need no translation.”
Source : Paula Vogel (1992). “The Baltimore Waltz”, p.24, Dramatists Play Service Inc
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