Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
The tongue has the power of life and death.
A word after a word after a word is power.
My words are my bullets.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
True story - I had index cards; I would write things on them and post them on the mirror in the bathroom. And I would speak it. Because you have to speak life. You have to speak what you want. You have to watch what you say because it's power in your tongue.
