"We must learn the language of our audience.  ... it is no use at all laying down a priori what the 'plain man' does or does not understand. You have to find out by experience."

... "you must translate every bit of your theology into the vernacular.  ... it is essential.  It is also of the greatest service to your own thought. ... if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning." 

- - C. S. Lewis, essay "Christian Apologetics", in "God In the Dock"

"By trying to translate our doctrines into vulgar speech we discover how much we understand them ourselves.  Our failure to translate may sometimes be due to our ignorance of the vernacular; much more often it exposes the fact that we do not exactly know what we mean."

- - C. S. Lewis, essay "God In the Dock", in "God In the Dock" 

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me."
-- King David (Ps. 51:10 - 11)

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
-- Apostle Paul (Rom. 12:2)

"As soon as the gates of the head are closed on our experiences we limit God, and by sealing our minds we limit our growth and the possibility of graduating in divine guidance." 

"The child's heart is open to any and all avenues; an angel would no more surprise it than a person.  In dreams, in visions, in visible and invisible ways, God can talk and reveal Himself to a child; but this profound yet simple way is lost forever as soon as we lose the open, childlike nature."

--- Oswald Chambers, "Christian Disciplines" ---

"Nothing we think is right - only what God thinks in us is right.  The Son of God revealed exactly how a person's brain and body and will were to be used if he was to live in obedience to God." 

--- Oswald Chambers, "Christian Disciplines" ---