"Let no one cause to depart from the standard that is laid through the letter of the Scripture which is revealed by the blood of Christ and of many witnesses of Jesus." —Michael Sattler
#TranslationTuesday
"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all." —David Livingstone
"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me." —Hudson Taylor
"If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God, you’ll be at rest." —Corrie Ten Boom
“We have observed that there is more to Bible translation than just the process of translating. We need to be involved in evangelism and discipleship and teaching the Bible. It’s an amazing, long, intense process." —Dave Hare
"I don’t agree with those who see reaching the unreached as being the only valid form of Christian mission; it is much broader and richer than this. However, taking the Gospel to places where people do not know about Jesus is an indispensable part of mission – it is not something we can ignore...
"Christian faith rests on a divine act of translation. ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14). Any confidence we have in the translatability of the Bible rests on that prior act of translation. There is a history of translation of the Bible because there was a translation of the...
"We [the church] are invited to participate in an activity of God which is the central meaning of creation itself. We are invited to become, through the presence of the Holy Spirit, participants in the Son’s loving obedience to the Father. All things have been created that they may be summed up...
“For whatever one may say of the (ultimate) unattainability of translation, it is and remains nonetheless one of the weightest and worthiest occupations in the overall being of the world (i.e., for humanity).” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1820; translated from German
"Words are not coins, dead things whose value can be mathematically computed. You cannot quote an exact English equivalent for a French word, as you might quote an exact English equivalent for a French coin. Words are living things, full of shades of meaning, full of associations; and, what is...