Quotes about Speech

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

Someone has said, "Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.

Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employed constructively.

The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.

Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.

It is warm." True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

You have control over three things — what you think what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.