gossip on Conversation

Conversation is when three people are talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Never about, always to.

To gossip means to betray a confidence or to discuss unfavorable personal facts about another person with someone who is not part of the problem or its solution. Even if the information you discuss is...

Gossip often veils itself in acceptable conventions such as “Have you heard…” or “Did you know…?” or “They tell me…” or “Keep this to yourself, but…” or “I do not believe it is true, but I heard that…...

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”

Three essential rules when speaking of others are: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

“Why can’t you just be happy for me and then go home and talk behind my back later like a normal person?”

The power of speech is unfathomable. Gossip can never be undone. It is cruel, divisive, and demeaning. It alters the way people see another person forever. It robs the victim of dignity and opportunit...

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends: but so, that for every hour of our life (after we are persons capable of laws, and know good from evi...

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

If someone has done something wrong even at a personal level, the right thing to do is not to gossip about it, not to tell everybody else, not to allow resentment to build up and fester, and certainly...

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that...

The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, othe...

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Much of gossip is envy in disguise.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," not "blessed are the troublemakers."

Father God, we confess that the actions of our hands do not often match the words of our mouths. We say one thing and do another. We give you praise and curse a friend, we sing songs of thanksgiving a...

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

If there were no gratified hearers of ill reports, there would be an end of the trade of spreading them.

A monk told his monastic leader, Poeman, “I am troubled in spirit, and I want to leave this place.” The old man said, “Why?” He said, “I have heard unedifying stories about one of the brothers. The...

Lord Jesus, We come to you today convicted of our own sin. When we read your call for the church to be united, we have to admit that we have fallen short. We have gossiped against your body, we have ...