Quotes about Gossip

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.

The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Talk to God before talking to the person. Discuss the problem with God. If you will pray about the conflict first instead of gossiping to a friend, you will often discover that either God changes your heart or he changes the other person without your help. All your relationships would go smoother if you would just pray more about them. As David

If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.

If anyone tells you that a certain person has spoken in a bad way about you, don't make excuses about what has been said, but answer: "He was ignorant of my other faults, otherwise he would have mentioned those also.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

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