“So also the tongue is a
small member, yet it boasts of great exploits.
“How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.”— James 3:5-8 (New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition)
The image accompanying
this post, of St. James the Apostle, was created in 1516 by the German
Renaissance painter Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).
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