Tongue Quotes

Praying in tongues charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a battery.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

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.

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

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

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

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

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

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

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

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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.

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

Language is wine upon the lips.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

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.

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

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.

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

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.

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.

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

The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

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

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

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

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

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

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

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

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

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.

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.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.