Quotes About Instruments Of God

#1. God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Paul David Tripp

#2. We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

#3. The children of God are His instruments on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Ravi Shankar

#5. God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#6. You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.

T. B. Joshua

#7. If the requirements of world-structure are so inexorable, what scope is there for a free providence in distributing pleasures and pains? If pains are the natural rubs of a world-structure bearing on sentient creatures, what need have we to view them as instruments of a disciplinary providence?

Jocelyn Gibb

#8. Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.

Thomas Boston

#9. You have to work at having quality in your church, because people that are influential in your city may be God's instruments for resolving all kinds of problems that will most surely come up in the future.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Jon Tester

#11. We are all but instruments of God.

Stonewall Jackson

#12. If we are in tune with the Spirit, if we are seeking the Lord and His guidance, if our direction is to return to our Father in Heaven, the sweet moments will come. And we will treasure them, for we have become instruments in the hands of God

Bonnie D. Parkin

#13. God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?"
"Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

Cassandra Clare

#15. God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.

Victor Hugo

#16. O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#17. Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

John C. Maxwell

#18. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Shout! Play instruments! Praise our God and King; sing praises to Him who is worthy. 7For He is the King of all the earth. Sing praise, all who can. Put words to music, and then sing

Anonymous

#20. God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.

J.G. Holland

#21. We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

Radhanath Swami

#22. Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

John Flavel

#23. Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

James Stenson

#24. How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Alan Watts

#25. Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

Frederick Lenz

#26. I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.

Paul Washer

#27. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Albert Schweitzer

#28. The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

Charles Hodge

#29. The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom.

Maximilian Kolbe

#30. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

D. Todd Christofferson

#31. Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Radhanath Swami

#32. Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

Richard Allen

#33. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.

Emmet Fox

#34. And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare

#35. God takes the willing heart rather than the obviously powerful as his instruments to use in the Kingdom of God.

Dominique Atkinson

#36. We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Rudolf Steiner

#37. God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

James MacDonald

#39. Oh God! Like the Thunderbird of old I
shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab
the instruments of the white man's success
- his education, his skills, and with these
new tools I shall build my race into the
proudest segment of your society.

Chief Dan George

#40. Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.

Robert Muller

#41. O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#42. We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

Thomas Clarkson

#43. Remember, your relationships have not been designed by God as vehicles for human happiness, but as instruments of redemption.

Timothy S. Lane

#44. At the end of the day, we need to stop thinking about what we can make of ourselves and start thinking more about who God is, what he has done and is doing in Christ for us and for our neighbors, and how he can use us and our fellow brothers and sisters to be instruments of his gift-giving.

Michael Horton

#45. I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.

James Otis

#46. If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

C.S. Lewis

#47. Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

Shusha Guppy

#48. An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

Paul David Tripp

#49. Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Michael Stipe

#50. We are all Divine instruments of God. All we have to do is ask Him which music to play...

Maximus Freeman

#51. Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'
"Oh my God," Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.

Cassandra Clare

#52. We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

William Ralph Inge

#53. In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

Shane Claiborne

#54. The wicked do not die in that way: God seems to take them under his protection to use them as the instruments of his vengeance.

Alexandre Dumas

#55. Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.

Harold Klemp