“If you would be perfect, strive to have no word in your mouth which is not in your heart.”
— Bede the Venerable (c. 672 – 735)
Source: Bede the Venerable, Homilies on the Gospels, trans. Lawrence T. Martin and David Hurst, C.S.B., Cistercian Studies 110 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1991), 2:14.
Reflection: Where might I be tempted to let my words outrun the truth of my heart, and what would integrity look like in that moment?