Religious amplifications of language direct us toward the greatest possible goals and support devout postures of faith, love, and piety. An oversimple noncognitivist view of the meaning of religious language relieves its verification problem but misses its intention to engage extraordinary beings and situations. We should consider guidance problematics associated not only with the much-discussed informative purport of religious utterance (in its reliance on analogy, symbol, metaphor, intellectual modeling, or a direct holy emanation in language) but also with its powers as a position-challenging appeal from a divine Other and as pragmatically effective advice. A special problematic of apophaticism, the linguistic call to transcend linguistic guidance, emerges within the problematics of religious locution (Pseudo-Dionysius), appeal (Barth, ibn Hanbal), and pragmatism (the Vimalakirti Sutra) at the outer limit of communicative ambition.