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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Small Talk and the Heart

Something as innocuous, as seemingly meaningless, careless, casual as small talk, when you take it apart, bears a freight of profound messages that every word you say and don’t say bears the freight of the overflow of your heart.

David Powlison
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