Top 344 Tongues Quotes & Sayings

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

These were specific enablements given to certain believers for the purpose of authenticating or confirming God's Word when it was proclaimed in the early church before the Scriptures were written. The temporary sign gifts included prophecy (revelatory prophecy7), miracles, healings, tongues, and interpretation of tongues. The sign gifts had a unique purpose: to give the apostles credentials, that is, to let the people know that these men all spoke the truth of God. Once the Word of God was inscripturated, the sign gifts were no longer needed and they ceased

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.

For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.

A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

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

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

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

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

No relationship is perfect and people who say they don't argue are either liars or biting their tongues all the time.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

I was just praying quietly in tongues and I found that a really helpful way to pray. There are other times when I use the gift when I really feel I don't know what to pray or how to pray. I know what I feel but I just can't quite put it in to words, and I use that, I find it a helpful gift. I don't think you need to speak in tongues, I don't think all Christians do speak in tongues, nobody has to speak in tongues, nobody's forced to, but if somebody wants to I think it's a good gift.

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. So when the earth is alive with gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave