Quotes about Vessel

But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside," she say.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

To make room for God to fill the vessel of our soul, we have to begin moving out some of the unnecessary clutter that continually accumulates there like the junk drawer in your kitchen.

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

In Mary this petition has been granted: she is, as it were, the open vessel of longing, in which life becomes prayer and prayer becomes life. Saint John wonderfully conveys this process by never mentioning Mary's name in his Gospel. She no longer has any name except "the Mother of Jesus".1 It is as if she had handed over her personal dimension, in order now to be solely at his disposal, and precisely thereby had become a person.

The problem comes when we mistake the vessel for the treasure, for the treasure is the life and power of Jesus Christ.