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.
I must play the instrument I've got.
We are but as the instrument of heaven.
I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.
If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!
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.
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.
I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.