Gossip

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends - you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

My Name Is Gossip

I have no respect for justice

I maim without killing

I break hearts and ruin lives

I am cunning and malicious and gather strength with age

The more I am quoted the more I am believed

I flourish at every level of society

My victims are helpless

They cannot protect themselves against me

because I have no name and no face.

To track me down is impossible.

The harder you try the more elusive I become

I am nobody’s friend…

Once I tarnish a reputation, it is never the same

I topple governments and ruin marriages

I end ministries set up by God

I ruin careers and cause sleepless nights, heartache and indigestion.

I spawn suspicion and generate grief.

I make innocent people cry in their pillows.

Even my name hisses.

I am called Gossip

Church gossip

Office gossip

Shop gossip

Party gossip

Telephone gossip

Online gossip

Celebrity gossip

I make headlines and headaches!

Before You Repeat A Story, Ask Yourself… Is it true? Is it fair? Is it necessary? Would I want it done to me?

Killing with words …..

Take a minute….

Think ….

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.