Monday, January 25, 2010

Puritan Quote

"God loves adverbs better than nouns; not praying only but praying well; not doing good but doing it well." -Thomas Brooks

2 comments:

  1. Then maybe He loves other languages that are capable of conveying more meaning with just one word rather those that depend on modifiers.

    Just kittens.

    Love it.

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  2. Absolutely! God is the Creator of the wide variety of languages, creating the perfect language for each group of people. Hebrew and Greek are noted for being much more expressive than English.
    I do believe we English-speakers fail horribly at making use of all the wonderful words within our language. We dumb our talking down to such mundane phrases such as,"Have a good one." May we relearn to make use of all the parts of speech!

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