Then the girl gave it to her mother. When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb. You probably heard it said many times on the playground when you were growing up. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. There s not an ounce of truth in that saying of course.
Words can be incredibly hurtful.
A few choice syllables uttered here and there can really leave a person s soul battered and bruised. That s why the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was right when he said that Words are loaded pistols. If you ve ever been on the receiving end of an announcement like that, you know that it takes a long time for the hurt to go away. A minister found himself in a similar situation once where he had to say something that he didn t want to say. The minister didn t want to do the funeral, but the church really needed the money for its building fund.