Monday, August 11, 2008

The Outspoken Christian

He will then be honest and outspoken and truthful, a hater of falsehood and hypocrisy and cheating and underhand dealing. He will think as he says; and although he may not say all that he thinks, not tell everybody all that he knows, for that might be imprudent, or uncharitable, or even unjust, yet what he does say will be the utterance of his real mind; he will not go about sowing falsehoods to serve a purpose. The simple and direct method, wherever it can be taken, will always be the method of his choice.

-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's