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Tongue Quotes

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Praying in tongues charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a battery.
Kenneth E. Hagin

Invoking in tongues energises your soul like a battery charger refreshes a battery.
Authors on Tongue Quotes: William Shakespeare George Herbert Ralph Waldo Emerson Rumi Homer Euripides Jonathan Swift John Milton Samuel Johnson Benjamin Franklin Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Aeschylus Richard Brinsley Sheridan George R. R. Martin Miguel de Cervantes Jeremy Taylor Theognis of Megara Plautus Plutarch Cato the Younger Alexander Pope Sherrilyn Kenyon George Eliot Charlotte Bronte Hesiod Saint Francis de Sales Franny Billingsley Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Green Sophocles J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Jefferson Janet Evanovich
2.
I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.
Saint Francis de Sales

I have reached an understanding with my mouth, to remain silent when my emotions are in turmoil.
3.
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Dorothy Parker

The initial step I take each morning is scrub my pearly whites and hone my wit.
4.
O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.
John Knox

O Almighty, propel and regulate my words to articulate the veracity.
5.
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
Saint John Chrysostom

'Let us ever watch our words; not that they should always be unspoken, but that they should be uttered at the appropriate moment.'
6.
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
John Wycliffe

'Englishmen absorb Christ's teachings most effectively in their native language. Moses heard God's instructions in his own dialect; so did the disciples of Jesus.'
7.
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
John Calvin

The gospel is not a set of words, but an embodiment of living.
8.
No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.
Uthman ibn Affan

No one keeps a secret in his soul, but Allah reveals it through his expression or with an inadvertent remark.
9.
I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.
Jesse Duplantis

10.
Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
John the Apostle

11.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
Marcus Garvey

12.
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium

13.
The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.
Pope Pius XII

14.
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
Elsie de Wolfe

15.
Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.
Ronnie Radke

16.
The wound that's made by fire will heal, But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.
Thiruvalluvar

17.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

18.
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.
Daniel Dennett

19.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
Elizabeth I

20.
Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia Woolf

21.
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

22.
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Mikhail Bulgakov

23.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Cato the Younger

24.
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Xunzi

25.
As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.
George Whitefield

26.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Samuel Johnson

27.
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!
Maria W. Stewart

28.
Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.
Maruf Karkhi

29.
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor

30.
Did you ever see a chameleon catch a fly? The chameleon gets behind the fly and remains motionless for some time, then he advances very slowly and gently, first putting forward one leg and then the other. At last, when well within reach, he darts his tongue and the fly disappears. England is the chameleon and I am that fly.
Lobengula

31.
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
Salman Rushdie

32.
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
Michael Buble

33.
The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
John Green

34.
The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
Chief Joseph

35.
The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Nicky Gumbel

36.
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
John Carpenter

37.
Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.
J. K. Rowling

38.
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
Brad Paisley

39.
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.
Brendan Behan

40.
The mind knows not what the tongue wants.
Howard Moskowitz

41.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

42.
When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!
Ernesto Illy

43.
The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.
Ed Sheeran

44.
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
Sappho

45.
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin

46.
Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
Sophocles

47.
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
Anthony Marra

48.
She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.
Helene Cixous

49.
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
Alice Hoffman

50.
My tongue speak what my heart thinks.
Davy Crockett