“Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.” St. Isidore
Hand written letters
Direct conversations
“The better friends you are, the straighter you can talk, but while you are only on nodding terms, be slow to scold.” St. Francis Xavier
Hard conversations
God’s glory?
“Would to God that these men who labor so much in gaining knowledge would give as much thought to the account they must one day give to God of the use they have made of their learning and of the talents entrusted to them!” St. Francis Xavier
