Plain Catholics in the Mountains and Valleys: Useless Murmuring: Is there virtue in controlling your tongue?

Rejoice in hope; endure in affliction; persevere in prayer. Romans 12:12

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
St. John Paul II

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it. (Habeo granum sinapis quod uti non timeo)
Pope Benedict XVI

But I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing, direct murder by the mother herself."
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Useless Murmuring: Is there virtue in controlling your tongue?

“Beware then of useless murmuring and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret word is without result and a lying mouth destroys the soul.

Wis 1:11

An excellent article of edification by Marlon De La Torre.

"Hence our tongue can be our greatest asset of evangelization or our greatest curse. St. Francis De Sales reminds us that our ultimate goal is spiritual maturity which means having the ability to listen first, speak second."

http://www.knowingisdoing.org/2017/01/24/is-there-virtue-in-controlling-your-tongue/