“Love is a verb… and Verbs show action”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
Quotes from acting
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 41
“Love is a verb… and Verbs show action”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
Quotes from acting
“God, to me, it seems
is a verb,
not a noun,
proper or improper.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
No More Secondhand God (1963)
1960s
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Journals A 126 (March 1836)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How few are substantives, active verbs, how many are copulas? Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist
Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
“Faith in God includes faith in those who help God.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.269
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 58).
Arulselvam Rayappan (1960) Indian prelate
Source: Responsible Servants https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/responsible-servants-arulselvam-rayappan-sermon-on-parable-general-77029 (7 March 2005)