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“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.”

Said Spirit Simple Talking Doubt Too Much Worst Holy Speech Perfection Faults Tongue Gentle Holy Spirit Attachment Virtuous Defects Charitable Amiable Talking Too Much

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?”

Source: The Essays of George Eliot

“When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.”

Soul Running Age Given Forever Holy Speech Rounds Gallery Whispering Utterance Domes

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.”

People Spirit Lying Consciousness Streets Cold Drink Holy Speech Conscience Raises Tables Slavery Servant Holy Spirit Hypocrisy Tails Severe Champagne Racket Dine Serfs

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.”

Men Holy Speech Daily Life Truthful Virtuous

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.”

Doe Christian Spiritual Spirit Holy Truth Is Speech Advantage Holy Spirit Quickening

Author:Watchman Nee

“[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man, welcoming refugees to the Vatican, strolling through a shanty town in Rome, visiting a home for the elderly, washing the feet of prisoners on Holy Thursday, and going to a hospital for newborns.”

Men Done Home Powerful Feet Example Holy Speech Towns Angry Welcome Symbols Hospitals Prisoner Rome Pope Refugee Elderly Washing Visiting Strolling Thursday

Author:John I. Jenkins

“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.”