There is a beauty of language, just as there is a beauty of face. There is harmony of words, Just as there is harmony of sky and stars, green foliage, and crystal waters. There is a delicacy of speech, just as there is a delicacy of tints in the masterpiece on canvas, in the shimmer of light on the dewdrop, in the semi-transparent petal of the woodland flower.
Beautiful nature is the robe of God, woven on the loom of His everlasting word.
The beautiful word, placed in the depths of mind, beautifies the language of life. Kind words, firm words, tender words, righteous words, loving words, draw on these elements of God, bringing them to bloom in human life, as the wick draws the oil and produces light.
The beautiful word makes beautiful faces, beautiful manners, beautiful lives.
WATCH YOUR WORDS
Keep watch on your words, my darlings,
For words are wonderful things;
They are sweet, like the bees' fresh honey,
Like the bees, they have terrible stings.
They can bless like the warm, glad sunshine,
And brighten a lonely life;
They can cut, in the strife of anger,
Like an open, two edged knife.
May peace guard your lives, and ever
From the time of your early youth,
May the words that you daily utter
Be the words of beautiful truth.
Select your words as you would choose flowers for a friend. Be a model in the art of fine speech.
"Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." (Ps 141:3)
"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strngth, and my redeemer." (Ps 19:14)
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