Inappropriate Conversations

"I see anger as a complex series of body changes triggered off by a sudden awareness of danger. This reaction to stress can be regarded as our survival kit, shared in some measure with all living creatures. All of us live, to some extent, in danger."
David R. Mace

Ephesians 4:26 (the old adage about not going to sleep angry is directly Biblical)

"Whether we can take 'a life for a life' is one question; whether we should is another. Cain and Abel pose an answer. Rather than taking life for life and delivering a powerful message by killing Cain, God instead banished Cain from the community. To say the least, we must not be cavalier about death penalty decisions."
-Greg
 
Genesis 4:13-16 (mark of Cain directly dismisses any death penalty rule)

"Honesty is not the best policy because of the pitfalls of lying; it is best because of the feeling of being deeply and genuinely known."
-Greg

Ephesians 4:25 (speak the truth because we are part of one another)

"Life's an essay test; we're obliged to give essay answers."
-Greg

Acts 17:16-34 (I proclaim to you now what you worship as Unknown)

"It's the things which aren't said that do the most damage."
Luc Longley

Acts 4:1-22 (we cannot keep from speaking about what we’ve seen and heard)

“The world is like a book that can be read in either direction. There is the power of creation, to make something of nothing. And there is the power of destruction, to make nothing from something.” 
Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz

Galatians 5:13-26 (works of the flesh versus fruits of the spirit)

"I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." 
Ezekiel of Jerusalem

Ezekiel 36:25-28 (a new heart and a new spirit as a baptism of sorts)