Spiritual Thoughts

  S peak softly and sweetly; later you may have to eat your words. ~ Unknown L et no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, BUT only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear . ~ Ephesians 4:29 (NASB)

  I t is all right to have butterflies  in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. ~ Robert Gilbert A nd now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all  boldness ...... and when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the holy spirit and continued to speak the word of God with  boldness. ~ Acts 4:29, 31

  R emember not only to say the right thing  in the right place, BUT  far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Benjamin Franklin T he tongue of the wise commends knowledge, BUT  the mouths of fools pour out folly. ~ Proverbs 15:2

  M y problem is I say what  I am thinking before I think  what I am saying. ~ Laurence J. Peter H e who guards his mouth and his tongue, guards his life from troubles. ~ Proverbs 21:23

  S ometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice before we speak. ~ Bill Watterson   E ven a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge,  BUT the mouths of fools pour out folly. ~ Proverbs 17:28; 15:2

T he things you say about others, also say a lot about you. ~ Mark Amend D o not speak evil against one another. ~ James 4:11

B lessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ~ George Eliot F or everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.  ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7

Children seldom misquote you;  in fact, they usually repeat word for word    what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown My son, if your heart is wise,   my heart too will be glad. My inmost being will exult when   your lips speak what is right.   -Proverbs 23:15-16

C ourage is... what it takes to     stand up and speak.  Courage is also... what it takes          to sit down and listen.  -Winston Churchill Wait for the Lord;    be strong, and let your heart         take courage;            Wait for the Lord! -Psalm 27:14 

        IF only our tongues were made of glass, How much more careful we would be when we speak.  -Unknown T he tongue of the just is as choice silver,      the heart if the wicked is of little worth. -Proverbs 10:20 (KJV)

M y problem is I say what I'm thinking            before I think what I'm saying. -Laurence J. Peter I f you have good sense, you will listen and obey;      if all you do is talk, you will destroy yourself. -Proverbs 10:8 (CEV)