Your language should be restrained, frank, sincere, candid, unaffected and honest. Be on guard against equivocation, ambiguity or dissimulation. While it is not always advisable to say all that is true, it is never permissible to speak against the truth…remembering always that God is the ‘God of truth.’
Although we may sometimes discreetly and prudently hide and disguise the truth by an equivocal statement, this must never be done except where the matter is important and God’s glory and service clearly require it. In any other case such tricks are dangerous. As the sacred word tells us, the Holy Spirit does not dwell in a deceitful and tricky soul. No artifice is as good and desirable as plain dealing. Worldly prudence and carnal artifice belong to the children of this world; whereas the children of God walk a straight path and their hearts are without guile.
- St. Francis de Sales
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