Quotes About The Potter And The Clay

#1. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#2. Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and true shape and form!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Isaiah 64 8

#4. Unfortunately, the people who have the greatest influence in our lives rarely understand the power of their words to shape who we become. They never fully understand that what informs us forms us. Words spoken into a soul are like the hands of a potter pressed against wet clay.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#5. For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day, I watch'd the Potter thumping his wet Clay: And with its all obliterated Tongue It murmur'd - "Gently, Brother, gently, pray!" XXXVII.

Omar Khayyam

#6. I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?

Stephen King

#7. Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

Thomas Huxley

#8. Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

Chaim Potok

#9. When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
a Potter may one day mould
the dust of both of us
into the same clay.

Omar Khayyam

#10. You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

Corrie Ten Boom

#11. O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

Francois Fenelon

#12. You can make a vessel from any type of clay,but how it will come out depends on the master

Sunday Adelaja

#13. The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

E.S. Russell

#14. In life at least once a person comes, changes you for rest of your whole life, just like a potter who takes clay, gives a proper shape and put into fire. After that, it's not possible to come in natural form ... LOVE IS JUST LIKE THAT.

Anuj Tiwari

#15. Davos had often heard it said that the wizards of Valyria did not cut and chisel as common masons did, but worked stone with fire and magic as a potter might work clay.

George R R Martin

#16. You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. Isaiah 29:16

Beth Moore

#17. O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Anonymous

#18. I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. We're all diamonds in the rough until God gets His hands on us".

~R. Alan Woods [1984]

R. Alan Woods

#20. I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?

Stephen King

#21. In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

Stuart Dybek