Spiritual murder

Words of Life - 5 August 2018
 Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea

If your tongue’s like a sharp sword, then you can use it to murder people. It’s what we often do, without thinking that we’re killers. We wound our neighbour’s heart with slander and lies, we insult their human dignity and we agitate their hearts with malicious talk. Is that not spiritual assassination?