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   "For, if they did enter a tavern, they did not enter it with such   
   shamelessness as was their wont; but even at the festive table they often   
   thought of our words----of the rebuke,----of the blame; which, when they   
   remembered, they would be ashamed----they would inwardly blush. Neither,   
   though acting in their usual way, did they do so with their usual   
   recklessness. And this is the beginning of salvation, and of the best kind   
   of change----namely, the being in any degree ashamed----the disapproving in   
   some measure of that which was being done. Besides this, another and not   
   smaller gain accrues to us from this our work. What then is it? It is the   
   making those who are already wise more careful. It is the persuading them   
   by the word spoken that they are of all men the best advised, since they   
   are not led away with the multitude. I did not restore the sick to health?   
   But I strengthened those that were well. The word did not lead any away   
   from their sin? But it made more steadfast those who were living   
   virtuously."   
      
   St. John Chrysostom, On the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.   
      
   "Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands   
   in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;."  Psalm 1:1   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)