Quotes About Tongues

The tongues of God's people are meant to be set ablaze by the holy fire of heaven, achieving that which glorifies God. But a sanctified mouth is too unnatural to ever be coincidental. If we want it, we need to pursue it regularly and cooperate with God to receive it.

God can use our tongues to bring about stunning results, whether immediately or over time. He is not, however, likely to regularly infuse an instrument that is also employed for opposing purposes. In other words, the wrong use of the instrument can dramatically hinder its effectiveness with the right use.

Politics and the press: two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware

The voice of the light remains ever so faint; images quiet as ancient constellations float across the domw of my dawning mind. They are indistinct fragments that never merge into a sensate picture. There would be a landscape I have not seen before, unfamiliar melodic echoes, whisperings in a chaos of tongues.

Today, home from Trinidad, I thank James Arthur Baldwin for his legacy of fire. A fine rain of words when we had no tongues. He set fire to our eyes. Made a single look, gesture endure. Made a people meaningful and moral. Responsible finally for all our sweet and terrible lives.

He placed the soul in the body which He had fashioned. He protects the Creation which He has created. With their eyes, they see, and with their tongues, they speak; with their ears, they bring the mind to awareness. With their feet, they walk, and with their hands, they work; they wear and eat whatever is given.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

Over the years, a number of judges, among them the great Learned Hand, had attempted, tongues not always quite firmly in cheek, to sort out these fine and crucial distinctions. A legal definition of the term "superhero" had even been arrived at.

The tongues of hell are dull.

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

The pine needles stretch their tongues and sing an unfamiliar nocturnal song. Each tongue is so small that it cannot be heard; together the sound is so deep and powerful that it could level the hills if it wished.

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

Yesterday it had been a single chocolate orb that shattered with the tap of a knife, revealing shards of crystallized whiteness. Chocolate-menthol geode, Hector had said, and watched them piercingly as they ate, the chocolate melting on their tongues while the menthol rose in vapors straight towards the tops of their skulls.

But just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were

The Ozarks are a fixture in my mindscape, but I didn't stay local in every respect. I always think of Miles Davis, People who don't change end up like folk musicians playing in museums, local as a motherfucker. I wouldn't describe my attachment to home as ghostly, but long-distanced. My ear has been licked by many other tongues.

I went on to propose that our own culture and the classical tongues made a happier conjugation [...] English, I suggested, couldn't really express us.

although the high walls that surrounded his home might conceal the tongues of fire, they could no longer conceal the clouds of smoke.

The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.

Gossip, gossip, gossip. Rumors. Tongues. 'Life and death are in the power of the tongue,' Ã¢â'¬Â he quoted in Hebrew.

The eyes those silent tongues of love. —CERVANTES

Three gifts of utterance that say something: • Prophecy • Divers kinds of tongues • Interpretation of tongues Three gifts of power that do something: • The gift of faith • The working of miracles • The gifts of healings Three gifts of revelation that reveal something: • The word of wisdom • The word of knowledge • The discerning of spirits

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

Carl was just saying good-bye, Mom said. Really, I said. He must speak in tongues.