Speaking In Tongues Quotes

#1. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.

Virginia Woolf

#2. 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

#3. The next object of speaking in tongues is the edification of self

Sunday Adelaja

#4. We are not speaking gibberish. We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great Calipha and Saladin, the most beautiful intricate of all human tongues. "
" Well it sounds like a Racoon clearing it's throat.

John Green

#5. Tongues are a miraculous manifestation of being filled with the Holy Ghost.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Inside my head is a tumble of incoherent screams that sound an awful lot like someone speaking in tongues. Apparently my inner voice is Pentecostal.

Rachel Hollis

#7. This heavenly language opens up a door into the Father's presence, which is the only place where we can receive deep revelations right from His mouth.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Latin is a dead tongue
And Romans made songs!
Then no one disagree:
It delighted them in theory
Now it's "the Latin" in me.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#9. You have ruined me, Tatum O'Shea," he told her. "Completely wrecked me.

Stylo Fantome

#10. When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those.

Tina Weymouth

#11. The gift of speaking in tongues enables us to experience deeper prayer and thanksgiving

Sunday Adelaja

#12. That so few dare be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.

John Stuart Mill

#13. She was speaking in tongues?"
"What da f**k else she gonna speak with?" Veda rolled her eyes. I saw no reason to explai, so I let her go on.

Sierra Dean

#14. So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.

Grant Morrison

#15. Dwarves' tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Katy Perry

#18. When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.

Chris Oyakhilome

#19. Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1

Zadie Smith

#20. We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

William Gibson

#21. They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Francis Marion Crawford

#22. Being held down and secured just made me all the harder. I'll probably be speaking in tongues by the time this is over.

John Ellison

#23. Paul said you pray in tongues to edify yourself. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself (1 Cor. 14:4). To edify means build yourself up. Speaking in tongues builds you to the point that you can believe God instead of circumstances.

Norvel Hayes

#24. When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Noel Fielding

#25. None other than the Skeptic's Dictionary points out an obvious and troubling irony: "When spoken by schizophrenics, glossolalia is recognized as gibberish. In charismatic Christian communities glossolalia is sacred and referred to as 'speaking in tongues' or having 'the gift of tongues.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#26. The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

Henry Ford

#27. Speaking in tongues is not enough.If we turn men from unchristian religions to christianity we must produce miracles which convince men that Christ lives and He is real today.

T.L. Osborn

#28. Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.

Anne Sexton

#29. Although we are feminists and lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand.

Combahee River Collective

#30. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Khalil Gibran