"It is God's desire to open the gates of the Kingdom to the peoples of the earth so that they can walk through without having to abandon the unique languages and cultures in which God has placed them." (Paul Frank)

"What if language is not just a rough instrument in the hands of clumsy people, not just something useful and occasionally poetic, but something that can be divine, sacred, expressive of the very image of God, and an aspect of the imago Dei that is also vital to the missio Dei? (Chip Sanders)