Job 38:2 (NIV) Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?
Ephesians 5:6 (NIV) Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
As long ago as the colonial period in our history, Alexis de Tocqueville observed the tendency among Americans to be "the slaves of slogans." We still are. We must be the only people in history who think the Bible can be put on a bumper sticker. We turn theological insights into brand-names.—Virginia Stem Owens
"On Eating Words" in The Reformed Journal (June 1986). Christianity Today, Vol. 30, no. 18. Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "WORDS".
