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November 19, 2009
Reflections that I cherish
A reflection I read today from 'Timeless Wisdom to Nourish the Soul'. At times in our frivolous comments we forget Christian charity and of course the sin of calumny. Let us remember as we sow, so we reap! Words, words, words...
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. PROVERBS 10:11
A fool's mouth is his undoing, and his lips are a snare to his soul. PROVERBS 18:7
No sinful word, nor deed of wrong.
Nor thoughts that idly rove;
But simple truth be on our tongue,
And in our hearts be love. St. Ambrose
The Wise Man observes that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking. Their conversation is merely an exercise of the tongue: no other human faculty has any share in it. It is strange these persons can help reflecting that unless they have in truth a superior capacity, and are in an extraordinary manner furnished for conversation, if they are entertaining, they are enertaining at their own expense. Is it possible that it should never come into people's thought to suspect whether or no it be to their advantage to show so very much of themselves? Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom! Remember likewise that there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you... --Joseph Butler
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