A while back I mentioned AW Tozer’s book God’s Pursuit of Man and how God convicted me about the importance of foundational truths. You can read it here if you missed it. Anyway, I read the quote that really God used in my life the other day and was very impressed by the word use in it. The quote is actually by a guy named Coleridge whom Tozer was quoting (we all have our heros).
Here’s the quote: “Truths, of all others most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.”
Using my current ability and effort with words, my version of the same quote would probably be something like: “Things that are true and important can sometimes feel so true that we begin to ignore them or think they are bogus.”
Now you tell me, which one of the above makes you think more? Which statement cuts deeper? And which one is bereft of engrossing language?
It is for this reason that I am pledging to increase my vocabulary and think more deeply about which words I choose. In order to increase my vocab, I am signing up for a daily vocabulary word e-mail and will attempt to use that word in a conversation everyday. Today’s word is “plutocracy,” and it means “government by the wealthy.” I guess I will have to start a political debate or something. In order to think more deeply about my words, I suppose I will just have to spend more time thinking.
Looks like I'll be pouring over one of these
Anyone have good suggestions for vocab words? Anyone else want to subscribe to daily vocab words so we can have conversations and feel smarter than we really are? After all, the plutocracy is filled with intelligible people…
