I felt my blood coming up into my face at some
of the things that Shame said and threatened. But, at last, I began to
consider that that which is highly esteemed among men is often had in
abomination with God. And I said to myself again, Shame tells me what
men do and what men think, but he has told me nothing about what He
thinks with Whom I shall soon have alone to do. Therefore, thought I,
what God thinks and says is wisest and best, let all the men of the world
say what they will. Let all false shame, then, depart from my heart, for
how else shall I look upon my Lord, and how shall He look upon me at His
coming?
TALKATIVE
'A man full of talk.'--Zophar.
'Let thy words be few.'--The Preacher.
'The soul of religion is the practick part.'--Christian.
Since we all have a tongue, and since so much of our time is taken up
with talk, a simple catalogue of the sins of the tongue is enough to
terrify us. The sins of the tongue take up a much larger space in the
Bible than we would believe till we have begun to suffer from other men's
tongues and especially from our own.
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