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Elsewhere in the essay, she links good conversation, as St. Paul does, to our spiritual life. She says: . . . the perpetual surrender which politeness dictates cuts down to a reasonable figure the sum total of selfishness. To listen when we are bored, to talk when we are listless . . . these things brace the sinews of our souls. . . . They discipline us for the good of the community. There it is! Talking graciously and with "an edge of liveliness" braces the sinews of our souls and "discipline[s] us for the good of the community." That is why all of us, for the good of our own souls and for the good of our fellow men, who are our brothers in Christ, must ever try to become |
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