Quotes About The Tongue

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

When the heart full of God's love can draw on the mind full of God's word, timely blessings flow from the mouth.

Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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.

Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart.

You cannot help distresses coming. They will come, and offenses will come, but woe unto those that cause offenses. See that you do not cause offense. See that you live in a higher tide. See that your tongue cannot move.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof.

The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words; their tongues may persuade, but their lives command.

Pastors need your grace, not your gripes.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

Five, or six, ten people shall be made temporarily wretched because one person, unconsciously perhaps, yet supremely, egotistic and selfish, has never learned to control his disposition and bridle his tongue.

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

Nothing is a greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

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.

Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. For so have I heard, that all the noises and prating of the pool, the croaking of frogs and toads, are hushed and appeased upon the bringing upon them the light of a candle or torch. Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissolution of the tongue.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.