Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941–2001) Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author
An introduction to this book
The Religion of God (2000)
“God' is the name given to the most ‘important’ human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?”
"The Idea of God" from Essays from Epilogue (Manchester: Carcanet, 2001)
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“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Myla Goldberg (1971) American novelist
As quoted in [Burack, Emily, 10 Writers Capturing The Female American Jewish Experience, https://ew.com/article/2010/09/29/false-friend/, 26 April 2019, The Jewish Week, May 24, 2018]
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist
Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
“Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.”
Age et his vocabulis esse deos facimus quibus a nobis nominantur? At primum, quot hominum linguae, tot nomina deorum. Non enim, ut tu Velleius, quocumque veneris, sic idem in Italia, idem in Africa, idem in Hispania.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book I, section 84
De Natura Deorum – On the Nature of the Gods (45 BC)
“The name of a person you love is more than language.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“Even God had a Welsh name:
He spoke to him in the old language”
R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet
"A Welsh Testament"
Tares (1961)
Context: Even God had a Welsh name:
He spoke to him in the old language;
He was to have a peculiar care
For the Welsh people. History showed us
He was too big to be nailed to the wall
Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him
Between the boards of a black book.
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As cited in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p. 22