Num 12:1-8
12 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses
because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite
woman; 2 and they said, "Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses?
Has he not spoken through us also?" And the Lord heard it. 3 Now the man
Moses was very meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth. 4
And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out,
you three, to the tent of meeting." And the three of them came out. 5 And
the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tent, and
called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward. 6 And he said, "Hear
my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him
in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. 7 Not so with my servant Moses; he is
entrusted with all my house. 8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not
in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not
afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
RSV
Third
Person: “Did you hear about Sally?” “No” “She lost her job because she got
caught with her boss – “I mean, in a very compromising position.” “Really! Does
her husband know?” “I heard he left her when he found out.”
Second
Person: “Sally, is it true what I hear about why you lost your job? This must
be a great burden for you and your family.”
Third
Person: “What-a-ya think of our new football coach?” “I heard he got fired from
his last job.”
Second
Person: “Dear Brittany, just a note to tell you that I am praying for you and
your family.”
Third
Person: “The other day, my friend’s husband asked if I was interested in having
sex with him.”
Second
Person: “Jim, I am concerned about you. I am afraid you are about to do
something very stupid and that it will hurt lots of people we both love.”
Third
Person: “I can’t stand my new boss, he is a real jerk.”
Second
Person: “Could we talk about your expectation for me and settle a few matters
that have been troubling me?”
“Lord,
guard me lips this day from third person speech. Give me the courage and wisdom
to venture into second person conversations.”
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
A faultfinder is a person with a bad memory who
never remembers the good, or a person with a good memory who always remembers
the bad.
A malignant deity, called Critisism . . . At her right hand
sat Ignorance, her father and husband, blind with age; at her left, Pride, her
mother, dressing her up in scraps of paper she herself had torn. There was
Opinion, her sister, light of foot, hoodwinked, and headstrong, yet giddy and
perpetually turning. About her played her children, Noise and Impudence,
Dullness and Vanity, Positiveness, Pedantry, and Ill-Manners. The goddess
herself had claws like a cat, her head, and ears, and voice resembled those of
an ass; her teeth fallen out before, her eyes turned inward, as if she also
looked only upon herself; her diet was the overflowing of her own gall.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
By seeing the tremendous blossoming which a person can
experience when surrounded by love and confidence, when he does not feel
judged, we can measure the stifling power of other people’s criticism.
Paul Tournier (1898–1986)
Criticism leaves you with the flattering unction that you
are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a
saint and maintain a critical attitude.
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)
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