A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do music that I want to do, I focused on doing music that I want my fans to hear.
I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.
I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
My body is an instrument for me to use.
If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.
Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.
When we're true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet. Because we're all connected, we touch the lives of everyone around us, who then affect others. Our only obligation is to be the love we are and allow our answers to come from within in the way that's most appropriate for us.
Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.