A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

Look not in my eyes, for fear
They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And love it and be lost like me.

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!

My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

It’s not the most salubrious of instruments. A guitar is so much more cool.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.