Quotes About Use

Because of its frequent use in Scripture, grace should be an oft-preached topic, and a frequent subject of discussion among believers. Consider the following descriptions of grace found in the Bible.

Trust is a peculiar resource; it is built rather than depleted by use.

Maybe losing your soul isn't the right way to describe it," Turtle said. "Maybe it's more like … the more you use your power for bad things, the more you feel like you're entitled to use your power for anything. It makes it harder to go back — only forward into more bad things.

I will find this girl," hissed the Invincible Lord, and Undauntable felt a stab of fear for Wren. "I will find her, and her dragon — or dragons, if Boar's theory is correct. You can be of use to me, or you can be a stupid waste of space, as usual. But either way, one day I will control the girl who controls dragons, and then … then the whole world will be mine at last.

People are forced by their better judgment to ask very basic questions: Is it possible, how is it possible, to have more meaning and honor in work? to put wealth to some real use? to have a high standard of living of whose quality we are not ashamed? to get social justice for those who have been shamefully left out? to have a use of leisure that is not a dismaying waste of a hundred million adults?

Foucault recognised that the most important aspect of power lay in social relations. Individuals might have power in the form of domination and constraint; but more important, power was also involved in the production and use of knowledge.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?

Documentary: That's a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

That depends on your mind, Garion. The complexity of it lies in the complexity of the mind that puts it to use. Quite obviously, it can't do something that can't be imagined by the mind that focuses it. That was the purpose of our studies—to expand our minds so that we could use the power more fully.

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils.

Age and use do not make a style obsolete in the church as they do in secular entertainment; rather, they consecrate it.

A man is little use when his wife's a widow. - Scottish Proverb

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar

Gods have bestowed our genius on us; They will also find its use some day.