Watch Your Mouth…
… others are.
I am doing some reading, getting ready for my sermon on Sunday. Here is a little gem from Blaise Pascal:
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their image on men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
al sends
April 3, 2008 at 10:25 pm
that is a gem!
April 3, 2008 at 10:27 pm
BTW I know it isn’t everything and you don’t need a big head…but you have mad skills with words…especially in speech.
April 4, 2008 at 5:41 am
Big head? Al? I don’t see it.
April 4, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Thanks Dan… I do have a big head, but only if viewed from certain angles. That is why I walk around with an odd tilt to my grape.
As to my skills in oratory… if I said something well or worth remembering, it was probably lifted from someone else; and that, out of context. Here is an example; I was tickled with myself to no end with a turn of phrase I came up with on my drive to Montgomery today. It was good. I mean really good. Then I find the John Piper already said something very similar and said it better.
al sends
Oh, and I still plan on using that phrase though.
April 5, 2008 at 8:04 am
I know exactly how you feel, Al, especially when I walk around with an odd tilt to my grape. If I said something well or worth remembering, it was probably lifted from someone else.
April 7, 2008 at 10:35 am
Solomon said wisely, there is nothing new in the world. Good thing we’re finite beings otherwise the cycle would get pretty boring.
I do enjoy listening to you guys (all four) and you stretch my understanding of Godly things; which is very good.
April 7, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Welcome Robert…
Glad you are listening and talking/typing
al sends
April 11, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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