HarperCollins Christian Publishing

Truly, death and life are in the power of the tongue. The key is knowing how to use our speech properly.

“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Luke 6:45).

If we can’t say something nice, we shouldn’t say anything at all

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot” (Matthew 5:13).

I could see the blackened, charred remains of what had once been green foliage.