Very hurtful for the soul is eagerness for news. Take heed, says Jesus, what ye hear. On this account, discretion keeps watch over the society in which the Christian mingles. It knows how gradually and stealthily the love of money, worldly-mindedness, the secret power of the flesh, obtains the upper hand, and that it can never reckon itself free from this temptation. And, above all, it keeps watch over the heart, because there are the issues of life, there is the fountain out of which everything springs.
Discretion brings just the highest restfulness.
It has its security and strength in its heavenly Keeper, who slumbers not nor sleeps. The rest of faith, the faith that Jesus watches and guards, binds to Him in love, and holy discretion springs as of its own accord from a love that would not grieve or abandon Him, from a faith that has its strength for everything in Him. O Lord my God, guard me, that I may not be of the indiscreet in heart. Let the prudence of the righteous always characterize me, in order that in everything I may be kept from giving offense. Come, it is not necessary to be always taking so much pains with this.