Sentences with phrase «to speak with tongues»

When I told my old man how much I loved Thoreau, he said — yes, but he's a philosopher — speaks with tongues of angels, maybe but not in the same league with a true believer.
The Pentecostal churches and the charismatic movement emphasize both baptism in the Spirit and the Spirit's continuing post-conversion work, which may be seen in external signs such as speaking with tongues, healing and exorcism, which is the casting out of evil spirits.
Quite naïvely, they were impressed by the abnormal psychical phenomena — faith - healing, second sight, «speaking with tongues,» and the like — which broke out at Pentecost, and accompanied the extension of Christianity beyond the borders of Judaea.
Act 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
There the Spirit tries to break through the limits of imperfect human language in the speaking with tongues.
Such prophets are mentioned in the New Testament (e.g., Acts 11:27 - 30; 21:10 - 11), and Paul considered the gift of prophecy superior to speaking with tongues (1 Cor 14).
Because, «if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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