Quotes About Speech

En Mateo 12:36, Jesús dijo: «Mas yo os digo que de toda palabra ociosa que hablen los hombres, de ella darán cuenta en el día del juicio».

that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (see Matt. 12:34 KJV).

Good words are worth much, and cost little. —George Herbert

Words can poison, words can heal. Words start and fight wars, but words make peace. Words lead men to the pinnacles of good And words can plunge men to the depths of evil. —Marguerite Schumann

Thith ith too nautheating for wordth!" Libby said, grabbing Jake and running back into the house.

Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear. Use dusky words and dusky images. Darken your speech. Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking, But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts, Conceiving words, As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence, And out of their droning sibilants makes A serenade.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Humanness depends on being faithfully heard. And being faithfully heard depends on risky speech of self-disclosure uttered in freedom before a faithful listener.

As a result, legitimate indignation is regularly siphoned away from speech with God to be acted out in other, perhaps more destructive ways. Such speech of rage addressed to YHWH is credible only when the worshiping community has confidence that the covenant God addressed is both willing and able to intervene in contexts of unbearable suffering.

3. There is a text in its boldness. There is a congregation, perhaps reduced and diminished by fatigue. Third, there is this specific occasion for speech.

I had come for certitude, but the poetic speech does not give certitude.

Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced and God's speech has been banished. But the prophetic poet asserts hope precisely in exile.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

For if I when I speak am unable to make myself intelligible, then I am not speaking - even though I were to talk uninterruptedly day and night...Therein lies the distress and anguish.

Meanwhile Arthur, his recent disappointment with the army aside, had been giving a speech to a reunion of the 24th Wisconsin in Milwaukee on September 5, 1912, when he suffered a stroke and died at the podium. "My whole world changed that night," Douglas later wrote. "Never have I been able to heal the wound in my heart."23

There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unraveling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech.

We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.

A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.''3 Allow God to speak that apt word to you by focusing on one main thought from your daily reading—not five, ten, or a baker's dozen. One thing.