Jan 22, 2011 Saturday: Mother Teresa on Words Spoken
Excerpt fromWhere There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others by Mother Teresa
Words Once Spoken
Right here in Rome, St. Philip Neri was the spiritual father of a lady who had a terrible tongue. He always told her that she must control it. One day, to try to get this into her head, he took her to St. Peter's, to the top, and he told her to open the pillow she had brought there. It was a pillow full of feathers. She opened it and all the feathers went everywhere. Then he said to her, "Now take the empty pillow and gather all the feathers." She couldn't gather more than ten. He said, "These are the words that you speak with your tongue." So, it is the same for us, once words are spoken they can never be taken back. Never repeat; never say things you cannot repeat to Jesus before the Blessed Sacrament. Silence cannot be corrected.
