Quick to Hear / Slow to Speak!

James 1:19-21

John Henry Jowett (1864 – 1923), British Protestant Minister:
"This is one of the wisest and most difficult sayings in Holy Scripture. Some Christian precepts can be obeyed deliberately. The propriety of obedience to them is not only felt, but can be realized at leisure, as when we resolve to help a friend, or enter some course of action made without agitation. But in the command before us the call is likely to arrive when we are least in the mood to listen to it. Thus, however plain the precept is, it is one of the hardest to be kept."