Tongue Quotes - Page 35

• What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sunday, Gossip, Doe

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

  Maruf Karkhi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Blame

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

  Colley Cibber

  Running, Food, Fall

  Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211

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• The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Men, Thinking, Tests

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• And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

  Thomas Traherne

  Song, Stars, Wind

  Thomas Traherne, “Dumbness”

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• Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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• One of the first things which a physician
  says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor
  might often do the same.

  Nehemiah Adams

  Spiritual, Physicians, Might

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

  John Knox

  Moving, Speak, Lord

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• Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

  Plutarch

  Pain, World, Littles

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• O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

  Charles Wesley

  Kings, Grace, Triumph

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.876, Ravenio Books

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• Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

  John Brown

  Mother, Body, Language

  Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction

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• If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World.
  But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, Eye, World

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• After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Powerful, Years

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• When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Absurd, Persons

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• Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Silly, Heart

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• Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Dog, Heart, Feelings

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

  Ernesto Illy

  Coffee, Long, Drink

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• Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Guests, Speed

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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• In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.  Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Talking, Listening

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• For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Compassion, Suffering, Deeds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205

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• All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Real, Soul

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

  Michael Bassey

  Dream, Character, People

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• The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

  Bodhidharma

  Eye, Mind, Sound

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.23, Macmillan

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