{"quotes":[{"text":"God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He’ll use the people around us for that.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["destiny","god","instrumentalism","kingdom","life","love","money","people","purpose","serving-people","time","work","worship"],"id":41082,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for 'instrumental thinking.' But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.","author":"Stephen Holmes","tags":["antiliberal","capitalism","free-markets","instrumentalism","liberal"],"id":53819,"author_id":"Stephen+Holmes"},{"text":"We shouldn’t use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","divine-purpose","employment","expanding-the-kingdom","finance","fulfilling-purpose","instrumental","instrumentalism","job","jobless","life","money","obedience","purpose","work"],"id":70394,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"A gentleman is not a pot.","author":"Confucius","tags":["instrumentalism","utilitarianism","values","virtue"],"id":111685,"author_id":"Confucius"},{"text":"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["assumptions","hammer","instrumentalism","problem-solving","psychology","science","temptation"],"id":163976,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"When you serve people, God will send people to bless you.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessings","destiny","god","honoring-god","honoring-people","instrumentalism","kingdom","life","love","money","people","purpose","serving-god","serving-people","time","work","worship"],"id":220364,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["destiny","god","honoring-people","instrumentalism","instruments","kingdom","life","love","loving-people","money","people","purpose","serving-people","time","work","worship"],"id":315397,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["god","instrumentalism"],"id":397705,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}