Resisting Gossip Quotes

“Faith does not minimize our suffering. Faith does not say, “It’s no big deal.” Faith does not pretend that a situation is not painful or scary. What faith does do is take our problem to the One who really cares and can do something about it.”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Before you talk (or before you continue to talk) about someone who is not present, ask yourself the following: • Would I say this if he were here? (Really? Be honest now.) • Would I receive this bad news about her in the same way if she were present? • Am I hiding this conversation from someone? • Would I want someone else to talk this way about me if I were out of the room? Yeah, But What About . . .? Let”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“The foolish people of the world do not exist for my entertainment.”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all.” Silence can be golden. Proverbs”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“These people might act differently from one another, but at heart, they are all the same. Each one is moved by a heart that believes Satan’s original lie, loves a bad story and worships something that is not God. Each one has gotten everything backwards. Each one uses words to selfishly serve himself or herself rather than to love God and love other people (see Luke 10:27). But”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Lord Jesus said we would have to give an account “for every careless word” (Matt. 12:36), not just the malicious ones. I”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Like one who seizes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“A chameleon is afraid of what her peers will think, say or do if she does not produce some gossip on demand. She is especially afraid of being excluded. We”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Malicious gossip is a cancer. It must be stopped! Payback”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“look deeper than the behavior, into the heart of the gossip.”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned” (12:36–37). That”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Our words reveal what is in our hearts. When”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Once across the lips, always on the hips.” Gossip tastes great going down, but it has lasting and poisonous effects on our hearts. But”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Gossip is believing the ancient lie that we can attempt to play God by destroying others with the power of our words. Gossip is not just breaking a rule; it is perversely living out Satan’s lies, which we would rather believe than the truth.”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue

“Sinful gossip is bearing bad news behind someone’s back out of a bad heart.”
― Matthew C. Mitchell, Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue