relationships and community on Holding your Tongue

At a recent gathering of seminary professors, one teacher reported that at his school the most damaging charge one student can lodge against another is that the person is being “judgmental.” He found ...

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

My friend Joi told me that when she was growing up, her parents invented a ploy to keep her from talking all of the time. They told her that people are allowed only so many words in one lifetime, and ...