1.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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