Gold Nugget 261 - The Empty Mind

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      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

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