Gold Nugget 261 - The Empty Mind
The more empty a man is, the more fluent he is. The pauses in speech necessitated by thoughtfulness are never pleasing to the thoughtless; they are like the rattling flow. The empty mind has generally a glib tongue. Again, the more empty a man is the more dogmatic.
The thoughtful man can only suggest and hint, and cautiously and reverentially submit his doctrines. For, as a thinker, he has touched difficulties and mysteries at every point; he can only speak with modesty. This, to the people, is more or less distasteful; they want dogmatism, positiveness, assurance, amounting to audacity. This the empty man can give.
The more empty a man is, the more somnific. The people do not like mental effort in their pews; what they want is gentle titillation and spiritual dreaminess. This the empty man can and does supply.
The Pulpit Commentary, Micah p. 34, Micah 2:11, (D. Thomas)
Gold Nugget 261
The Empty Mind
