“For the tongue is a smoldering fire, and excess of speech a deadly poison.”
(Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 264)
“The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.” James 3:6, INV Bible
“Backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul.”
(Bahá’u’lláh: The Kitáb-i-Iqan, p. 193)