Quotes about Tongue

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life. PROVERBS 18:21

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:21

The reflections of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. Proverbs 16:1

The challenge of a tamed tongue is so great that we'd be wise to give it daily attention in prayer.

Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way. James 3:10

You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant, but may my "right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.

Eating Fire Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll To be lit up from within vein by vein To be the sun