Quotes about Instrument

Do not mind whatever He has for me to do; though my work is feeble and I sometimes feel ashamed of it, I have put myself into God's hands as an instrument for Him to use.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

It is the little rift within the lute,That by and by will make the music mute,And ever widening slowly silence all.

In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one "who has become an instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

As in an organ from one blast of wind to many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.