"At a time when the charge of superficiality is sometimes leveled at religion in America, it is reassuring to some observers to discover that religious faith for many people appears to rest upon what is probably the firmest foundation—that of personal experience."
All too often, ill temper causes loss of control over the tongue, and the Bible tells us, "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven," observes the writer of Ecclesiastes; and he lists times of good and times of evil as cyclical phenomena in human history, including "a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
