Quotes about Instrument

with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.

Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.

Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals.

“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

The Word of God gives wounded Christian the victory. God renews his hope with His own promises, and Christian gives the Destroyer a deadly thrust resulting in a mortal wound to the enemy of the pilgrim's soul. Christian on his own could not defeat Apollyon. The sword of the Word of God is the only instrument that can accomplish such a task.

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.

We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].

Prayer is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people's needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.