Quotes about Gossip

Remember that I have been a legalist. We are the ones who throw stones. We are quick to judge without knowledge. We feed rumors and incline our heads to hear more. We label the messy people and gossip about the sinners and shake our heads in disgust. And when you have been a legalist in ministry, it's not pretty. And it's not ministry. And it couldn't possibly be what the Jesus had in mind when He said, "Go and teach them about me.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Satan must grin wickedly when he sees our gossip disguised as a prayer request or a need to get a third person's opinion. It just adds fuel to Satan's fire as the problem becomes widespread and relationships are damaged.

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.

They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.

Rumors aren't worth the sand we walk on.