Vessel Quotes - Page 10

• The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.

  Christine Caine

  Biblical, Emotional, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from May 08, 2015

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• God pours His oil into clean vessels!

  Jentezen Franklin

  Oil, Clean

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• It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
  And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
  But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
  They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
  Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
  And all the woman glares in open day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Horse, Men

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.87

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• Ill vessels seldome miscarry.

  George Herbert

  Ill

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319

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• Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.

  Floyd McClung

  Hurt, Father, Heart

  Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.97, Harvest House Publishers

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• You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.

  Jan Phillips

  Christian, Real, Compassion

  "Republicans and the Christian Vote" by Jan Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februuary 19, 2012.

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• The heart itself is only a small vessel,
  yet dragons are there, and lions,
  there are poisonous beasts,
  and all the treasures of evil,
  there are rough and uneven roads,
  there are precipes;
  but there too is God and the angels,
  life is there, and the Kingdom,
  there too is light, and there the apostles
  and heavenly cities,
  and treasures of grace.
  All things lie within that little space.

  Macarius of Egypt

  Lying, Heart, Angel

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• You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze.

  Fanny Burney

  Blood, Irritation, Together

  Fanny Burney (2013). “Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay: Volume 2: Edited by Her Niece”, p.346, Cambridge University Press

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• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  David Hume

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book”, p.248, VM eBooks

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• Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

  Stephen Crane

  Wisdom, Children, Wall

  Stephen Crane (2015). “Men, Women, and Boats”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.

  Francis Spufford

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Love, Heart, Hatred

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.23, Penguin

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• A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate...Everything that happens to you influences your writing...The writing process for me is pretty much always the same-it's a solitary experience...I have yet to write that one song that defines my career...Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Mind, Body, Spirit

  Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor

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• Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Fire, Light

  "The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks".

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• Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Simplicity, Expansion

  James Clerk Maxwell (1871). “Theory of Heat”, p.31

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• There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

  James Bryce

  Government, Water, Unity

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• I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

  Ne-Yo

  People, Soul, Want

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• My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.

  Stepan Makarov

  Funny, Military, Stronger

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Falling In Love, Aunt

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Collected Stories, 1891-1910”

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• Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Heart, Soul

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

  Edward Smith

  Safety, Gone, Ships

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• Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

  Asa Gray

  Wind, Shapes, Sides

  Asa Gray (1877). “Darwinia: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism”

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