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I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant, but may my "right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.
— Frederick Douglass
Eating Fire Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll To be lit up from within vein by vein To be the sun
— Margaret Atwood
This is "poetry," this song of the wind across teeth, this message from the flayed tongue to the flayed ear.
— Margaret Atwood
The tongue is a boneless creature that is more deadly than a rattlesnake, and lurking behind the enamel fence of your teeth, it is always ready to strike.
— John Hagee
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
— Ellen Glasgow
Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,Of His Flesh the mystery sing;Of the Blood, all price exceeding,Shed by our immortal King.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
entire churches can be consumed with the demonic drama that proceeds from one tongue speaking on behalf of a bitter heart.
— Mark Driscoll
Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.
— John Piper
The universe exists primarily to display the wealth of the glory of the mercy of God for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
— John Piper
If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, I'm glad to see you, and said with your heartier soul, I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time. When
— Mark Twain
Oh, yes, you can sin with your tongue! David knew this and took special steps to keep himself from that kind of sin. He knew how serious God is about the damage and destruction the tongue can do. He obviously passed this knowledge along to his son, Solomon, because in Proverbs 6, Solomon wrote: These six
— Robert Morris
Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle. But it isn't — it's firmly fastened at one end.
— LM Montgomery