 If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. Author: Richard Cecil |
| Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it a lodging. Author: Robert Leighton |
| The cure of an evil tongue must be done at the heart. The weights and wheels are there, and the clock strikes according to their motion. A guileful heart makes a guileful tongue and lips. It is the work-house where is the forge of deceits and slanders; and the tongue is only the outer shop where they are vended, and the door of it. Such ware as is made within, such, and no other, can come out. Author: Robert Leighton |
| We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue. Author: Thomas Watson |
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| How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed. Author: John Newton |
| I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christian are hurling on others. Author: A.B. Simpson |
| Perhaps we have been guilty of speaking against someone and have not realized how it may have hurt them. Then when someone speaks against us, we suddenly realize how deeply such words hurt, and we become sensitive to what we have done. Author: Theodore Epp |
| I find great numbers of moderately good people who think it fine to talk scandal. They regard it as a sort of evidence of their own goodness. Author: Frederick W. Faber |
| Let us follow in Jesus' footsteps. Let people say whatever evil they want to, about us. If we honour God, He will one day honour us. Author: Zac Poonen |
