Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
Interpretation
Language can often complicate our understanding rather than clarify it.
Aunt Beast's quote suggests that while language is intended to communicate thoughts and ideas, its inherent limitations can lead to confusion and complexity. The simplicity of a childβs language highlights how intricate the process of meaningful communication can be, indicating that the essence of thoughts can sometimes get lost in translation.
In practice
In a discussion about education and children's understanding of complex issues.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.
All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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