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語言

His heart cannot be pure whose tongue is not clean.

一個舌頭不淨的人心也不乾淨。

In company, guard your tongue - in solitude, your thoughts.

在人群中,看緊你的舌頭 - 獨處時,看緊你的思想。

Lord, make my words gracious and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them!

主啊,讓我的言語美味可口,因為明天我就要吃它們了。

Nothing is so opened more by mistake than the mouth.

沒有甚麼能比嘴巴更容易招惹誤解了。

There are two sciences which every person ought to learn: the science of speech and the more difficult one of silence.

有兩種科學人人都該學:說話的科學以及更難的默然不語科學。

What is in the well of your heart will show up in the bucket of your speech.

你心井的東西會在你話語水桶中顯露,

On of the first things that happens when a man is really filled with the Spirit is not that he speaks with tongues, but that he learns to hold the one tongue he already has.

J. Sidlow Baxter

當一個人真正被聖靈充滿時表現的第一件事情不是說方言(用舌頭說話),而是學習駕馭他用慣了的舌頭。

A sanctified heart is better than a silver tongue.

Thomas Brooks

聖潔的心勝過銀舌頭。

Of all the members in the body, there is none so serviceable to Satan as the tongue.

Thomas Brooks

人體所有器官,沒有一個比舌頭更易供撒旦差使的。

We know metals by their tinkling and me by their talking.

Thomas Brooks

由金屬發出的聲音我們知道它是甚麼樣的金屬,由人們的話語我們知道他們是甚麼樣的人。

There is nothing more slippery or loose than the tongue.

John Calvin

再沒有比舌頭狡猾又放蕩的了。

During a long life I have had to eat my own words many times and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

Winston Churchill

一生之中我常吃我自己的話,我發覺這些食物還真有夠滋養。

Think all your speak but speak not all you think.

Patrick Delaney

想想你要說的,但只說部分你所想的。

If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.

Thomas Fuller

如果我講的是虛假的,我必須要代它回答;如果是真的,它會代我回答。

The jawbone of an ass was a killer in Samson's time.   It still is.

Morris Gilber

在參孫的時代驢子下顎骨是個凶器,今天還是。

It is bad to think ill, but it is worse to speak it.

Matthew Henry

有壞念頭實在不好,如果說出來,那更糟糕。

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

一個銳利的舌頭是唯一會越用越銳利的工具。

A fool is hardly discerned when silent; his picture is best taken when he is speaking.

William Jenkyn

一個愚笨的人靜默不語時誰也看不出來;只要他一開口說話那就表露無遺。

Sharp tongues have a way of sharpening other tongues.

E. Stanley Jones

銳利的舌頭常會讓別人的舌頭同樣變得銳利。

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

James Russell Lowell

那些沒甚麼話好說以及那些不被說服而說話的人有福了。

Most of a man's sin are in his words.

Thomas Manton

一個人大部分的罪就在他的言語上。

If you think twice before you talk once, you will speak twice the better for it.

William Penn

如果在說出之前能多想一次,你說的會加倍增益。

Speech is the index of the mind.

Seneca

言語是心思的目錄。

Speech is ...only good when it is better than silence.

Richard Sibbes

只有在好過不說話時,話語才是好的。

Some men's tongues bite more than their teeth.

C. H. Spurgeon

有些人的舌頭比牙齒還會咬人。

Whatever moves the heart wages the tongue.

C. T. Studd

感動心的會讓舌頭舞動。

Evil tongues are the devil's billows.

John Trapp

邪惡的舌頭是魔鬼的巨浪。

How can Christ be in the heart when the devil has taken possession of the tongue?

Thomas Watson

當魔鬼佔據一個人的舌頭,基督如何能住在他的心中呢?

Words are the looking-glass of the mind.

Thomas Watson

言語是看穿一個人心思的玻璃。