Chew more; swallow less.
I heard this phrase in relation to eating. The idea is to slow down. In slowing down, you’ll eat less. Eating less leads to losing weight.
What about using this as a metaphor more broadly?
Say with media. Perhaps if we swallow less, we will be less gullible and susceptible to believing lies and distorted truth.
How about with study? What if instead of gulping huge chunks of the Bible and perhaps just memorizing a few rules, we instead read a paragraph or a story and chewed on it for a long time? Maybe you wouldn’t read the Bible in a year. But you may become wiser with more depth of understanding. Maybe you wouldn’t swallow half-thought-out ideas that lead you astray.
Faith Venture 
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