Lamin Sanneh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
All language is but a poor translation.
Every act of communication is an act of translation.
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
In art as in life, some things need no translation.

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