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Book: Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All
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  1. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    Our words are powerful, and they have consequences. Whether it is a string of words screamed out in anger during the height of a marital spat, or a politician who chooses to lie in order to win votes, or even just a middle schooler trying to impress a group of boys. Our words are powerful, and our words have consequences.
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  2. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell" {James 3:5 – 6}.
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  3. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    Lord, I give my mouth to you today. May what comes forth be sweet and not bitter. May the journey each word takes from my mind to my heart to my lips be guided by your hand. May what comes out be life-giving rather than causing death. May my words make you proud and bring you glory. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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  4. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    The truth is, words are never accidental. To be sure, there are times we utter careless words, but even then those words are first formed in our minds, filtered to our hearts, and then given permission to come out of our lips. So in our quest to use our words in ways that are good and honor God, we must first consider the heart and mind from which they come.
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  5. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off. Will
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  6. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    each word takes from my mind to my heart to my lips be guided by your hand. May what comes out be life-giving rather than causing death. May my words make you proud and bring you glory. In Jesus' name, Amen. * Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain {New York: Morgan Road Books, 2006}, 4.
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  7. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of" {Luke 6:45}.
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  8. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    If you play the fool and exalt yourself, or if you plan evil, clap your hand over your mouth!" {30:32}. Here it is, translated for social media: "If you are tempted to slam someone online or brag on Facebook or send off a nasty tweet, turn off the screen and walk away!
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  9. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. {Psalm 19:14}
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  10. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us, to talk about the rest of us.
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  11. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    Un-soft answers only worsen the mama drama in my house. And they don't win many points with my coworkers or neighbors either. When we give an un-soft answer, we drizzle a little gasoline on the tiniest spark of a potential spat. It may combust and flare, setting off a big old blaze. However,
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  12. Karen Ehman _ Keep It Shut: What to Say, How

    Even a fool when he holds his peace is considered wise; when he closes his lips he is esteemed a man of understanding" {Proverbs 17:28}. Yes, sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all. We
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