Boldness

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St John Chrysostom (347-407)

  • 'Boldness of speech is success; anger is failure. Therefore, if we should aspire to boldness, we must be free from anger, in case anyone should attribute our words to the latter. For no matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin everything. This is true no matter how boldly you speak or how fairly you admonish--in short, no matter what you do.' (Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles 17)
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