This Sunday’s readings: James 1:18-21
Reflections
Just as our love for God begins with listening to God’s Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.
~ Dietrich Bonhöffer
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.
~ Cato the Younger
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The absence of anger … can, in my opinion, be a most alarming symptom … If the Jews cursed more bitterly than the Pagans this was, I think, at least in part because they took right and wrong more seriously.
~ C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~ Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.
~ Jean Kerr, 1922-2003, Author/Playwright
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.
~ G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, The Club of Queer Trades