Monday, September 20, 2010

God loveth adverbs

"The homeliest service that we doe in an honest calling, though it be but to plow, or digge, if done in obedience, and conscience of God's Commandment, is crowned with an ample reward; whereas the best workes for their kinde (preaching, praying, offering Evangelicall sacrifices) if without respect of God's injunction and glory, are loaded with curses. God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well."


Joseph Hall, quoted in Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self, p.224.

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