Quotes about Speaking

On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.

The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.

Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God's Word fit what you have said?

The Word is, by definition, immanent in the divinity and active in the world, and as such the Father's revelation. A revelation of the Father without the Logos and his incarnation would be like speaking without words.

Corinthians 14:15

Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.

without wondering what it might mean to say that the crucified and risen Jesus was the king of whom Psalm 2 had spoken.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.

If we want to talk about natural powers on the basis of this psalm and on the basis of the Holy Spirit's manner of speaking, then we should call "natural" the fact that we are in sin and death and that we desire, understand, and long for things that are corrupt and evil.

When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him.