13闲话是生命的漏洞，那怎么办呢？我们要守住口，就先要对付心。主说，“因为心里所充满的，口里就说出来。”（34）是心里有这样东西，口里才说出来。你心里有这样东西，你口里迟早要说两句。在这里不说，到那里要说；在这一家不说，到那一家要说。心里所充满的，口里就说出来。所以你在神面前要学习不说闲话，就要从心里对付起。你的心如果不对付，你的口永远对付不好。因为心里充满了各种各样的东西，然后口里才有这许多东西说出来。所以我们千万不要说，我这一个人是有口无心的。……是因为你的心这样，所以口才这样。所以要对付闲话，就必须先对付心（倪柝声文集第二辑第十七册，七四至七六页）。
13Idle words leak away life. What then should we do? In order to keep our mouth, we must first deal with our heart. The Lord says, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12:34). When the heart has something, the mouth speaks it out. If we have something in our heart, sooner or later, it will come out of our mouth. If we do not speak it here, we will speak it elsewhere. If we do not speak it in this house, we will speak it in another house. Whatever is in the heart, the mouth will speak out. Therefore, in order to learn before the Lord to stop our idle words, we must start by dealing with our heart. If we do not deal with our heart, our mouth can never be dealt with properly. It is the heart that is first filled with all kinds of things before the mouth speaks of them. Never think that a word can be said in a heartless way…Because there is a heart for something, the mouth speaks. Hence, in order to deal with idle words, we must first deal with the heart. (CWWN, vol. 37, pp. 54-55)