Quotes about Articulation

the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

Theology is in crisis, largely because it has lost its nerve and forgotten its purpose to help discern, articulate, and commend compelling visions of flourishing life in light of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ.

Some writers have excellent "control"; they know exactly what they want to convey, and they convey it precisely and accurately

She heard it as though it were what language was made for

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. 

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community.