It’s always painful for me to ’speak’ – I am tormented before and after. It is hard to say the things that are most important, and if I master myself and manage to say some of these most important things, it so seldom goes home to others. In general, I am deeply conscious of the pointlessness of all verbal communication.
My dislike and distrust of verbal methods of persuasion – and of eloquence in general – is constantly increasing. ‘Let your adorning be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.’
The Diary of a Russian Priest
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