#tongues

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

#god #healed #i #power #sick

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#garbage #jargon #learn #mental #must

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. ↗

— John Lyly

#knot #might #never #our #shall

A sated person is different from a hungry one. A hungry one can't be persuaded to do anything, but a full person can be given boundaries and convinced...Like most intelligent and creative people, she knew what she wanted and how to focus her whole being on what she wanted. She wasn't avoiding food,she was using food to get over her fear of eating. It was unspoken, but that was what we both wanted for her. ↗

— Kyung Ran Jo

#food

Or even a really good hug! Jesus, your arms around another person, someone's arms round you, tight, so tight. Cause it's impossible to be happy all the time, to have a happy whole life, but you can be happy in bursts: with a really good hug you could be happy for...for half an hour maybe, and then that would be the best way, not to waste your time trying to get permanently happy, but just the next half-hour you are happy for, well immediately after, just fucking kill yourself. ↗

— Duncan McLean

#life

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #friends #had #poison #tongues

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#describing #does #enough #feel #how

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

#divers #extraordinary #ghost #holy #holy ghost