Quotes About Tongues

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.

Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues amongst arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling–blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hindrances of the success of your own labors. It

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs

Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,Like softest music to attending ears!

The tongues of dying menEnforce attention like deep harmony.

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye,Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. Their words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. How well he could have applied this passage to the last words of Jesus on the cross.

Familiars were known for their loose tongues until you cut them out. It was a practice Algaliarept frowned upon. Most of his brethren were bloody plebians. Removing a familiar's tongue completely ruined the nuances of their pleas for mercy.

Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

Have you ever heard silence? It is not a stillness which is the absence of sound. Silence is not empty, it is full of content. It is like the sky?intangible yet containing the stars, the sun, the moon, and all existence. That is silence and it is full of tongues.

I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals and makes us divine.

Their nakedness was their armour, their slow tongues their persuasiveness, their weakness demanded God's strength, and found it.

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. A big library, mused Northrop Frye in one of his many notebooks, really has the gift of tongues & vast potencies of telepathic communication.

Praying much in tongues is one way to develop an ear to hear the voice of the Lord. When we pray much in tongues we are allowing the Holy Ghost to speak through us.

Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world speaking with the gift of tongues.