#FOWC and his famous word prompt today is: … ta da ♫ …
INSTRUMENTAL
I choose to post quotes from sources you may or may not be familiar with who have used the word “instrument or instrumental” within their speech. Some you may or may not agree with but that is what makes the world go around.
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That’s jazz. Oscar Peterson
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. C. S. Lewis
Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Mahatma Gandhi
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. Bill Gates
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. Lawrence Welk
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than Quicksilver and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through the mesh.
Mike Pence
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. Yanni
“The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.”
[Ecclesiasticus 43:2]
My quote: The Blessed Virgin Mary was the most important instrument to mankind in that it was through her that God chooses to bring His Son into the world to redeem us.
