Quotes About Molding

If we are willing to be molded by His hands, the Lord will shower us, our men, and our relationships with abundance.

La invención consiste en la capacidad para captar las posibilidades de un objeto y en el poder para moldear y revestir las ideas que sugiere.

La invención, debe ser admitido humildemente, no consiste en crear desde el vacío, sino desde el caos [...] consiste en la capacidad de atrapar las posibilidades de un tema y en el poder de moldear y dar forma a las ideas que sugiere.

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

On the Anvil

Begin by thanking God for thumps. Every thump is a reminder that God is molding you (Hebrews 12:5–8). 2. Learn from each thump. Look upon each inconvenience as an opportunity to develop patience and persistence. 3. Be aware of "thump-slump" times. Know your pressure periods. Bolster yourself with extra prayer, and don't give up. Remember, no thump is disastrous. All thumps work for good if we are loving and obeying God.

Without the potter, clay is just dirt.

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

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.

You have been called to something much greater. You have been redeemed by Jesus and adopted into His family, then called to lead His church. You have been given the gift of musical art to tell the gospel and connect people's hearts to their Savior. You have been made a teacher to mold people's thinking about who God is and what He has done.

The world doesn't need more bling. It needs more clay.

Under favorable conditions, man's energies are put into the realization of his potential...Under inner stress, however, a person may become alienated from his real self. He will then shift the major part of his energies to the task of molding himself, by a rigid system of inner dictates, into a being of absolute perfection.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Os valores precisam se manifestar concretamente em nossa vida, moldando cada aspecto de nossa existência.

Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.

We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

I truly believe that God hasn't given us the kids we have merely so that we might raise them. He's given us the exact kids he has in the exact birth order with the exact personalities so that they might also be used as his tools in our lives to mold us into the men and women he has created us to be.