"...What we need is not primarily informational, telling us things about God and ourselves, but formational, shaping us into our true being.It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. Whenm language is personal, which is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth."
Eugene Peterson from "Eat This Book"
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