The scripture says we are to get rid of anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language and quit lying to each other. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton and America's greatest thinker, had a daughter with an ungovernable temper. A young man fell in love with this daughter and sought her hand in marriage.
"You can't have her," was the abrupt answer of Jonathan Edwards,
"But I love her," the young man replied.
"You can't have her," said Edwards.
"But she loves me," replied the young man.
Again Edwards said, "You can't have her."
"Why?" asked the young man.
"Because she is not worthy of you."
"But," he asked, "she is a Christian, is she not?"
"Yes, she is a Christian, but the grace of God can live with some people with whom no one else could ever live."
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