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  • When we can't hold back, or set boundaries, on what comes from our lips, our words are in charge-not us. But we are still responsible for those words. Our words do not come from somewhere outside of us, as if we were a ventriloquist's dummy. They are the product of our hearts. Our saying, "I didn't mean that," is probably better translated, "I didn't want you to know I thought that about you." We need to take responsibility for our words. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken" (Matt. 12:36).

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

  • They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.

    Fall   Brave   Age  
  • We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

    Thinking   Two   Advice  
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

    Children   Mean   People  
  • Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.

  • There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

    Heart   Water   Secret  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation
  • For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

    Beth Moore (2008). “Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long”, p.30, B&H Publishing Group
  • Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

    Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923
  • That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

    Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.112, Penguin Books India
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