“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his (own heart) language, that goes to his heart.” Nelson Mandela (source: GRN website) “The Bible is a special book – one I think every person needs to have in their mother tongue, the language they know best. There are many aboriginal people in Australia who don’t understand the gospel because they don’t have it in their own language – or if they do, they can’t get access to it. Yet even people who know several languages will turn to their mother tongue for their own devotions. When they want to get the most out of the Bible, it is their own language they turn to.” Paul Eckert (Pitjantjatjara Bible Translation Coordinator) “ It is an awesome thing for the Word of God to be in the heart language of the people because it is Jesus coming to become like an Aboriginal person, knowing the people, their feelings, the hurts, the pain, their whole identity.” Maratja Dhamarrandji (Djambarrpuyŋu Translator) “The English does not transform us.”  Yurranddjii Dhurrkay (Djambarrpuyŋu Translator)