St. Ambrose’s secret to winning people over with your words

Sometimes it may seem that our words do nothing. We try to talk with someone on Facebook, or in real life, and the person we are conversing with does not appear to be listening.

It can be a frustrating experience, one where we can easily lose our temper and start hurling insults.

For St. Ambrose, the key to winning someone over is in finding the source of all words.

If we want our words to have any effect, we need to first drink from the source, so that we may be filled to overflowing. That overflow will then spill out in our words and fill others with life.

Last of all, St. Ambrose urges us to make our words clean, so that we may win others over.

When you want to truly win someone over, go to the source of all words, the Word, Jesus Christ.