Quotes About Power

one of the most effective is that advocated by Frank Laubach in his excellent book, Prayer, the Mightiest Power in the World.

If ye have faith … nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20) He removed that one, shuffled expertly through the cards with one hand as he drove, selected another, and placed it under the clip. This one read, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)

the trouble with most prayers is that they aren't big enough.

God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing His presence. Then practice believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualized is true. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will actualize itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.

According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew 9:29).

Alert people everywhere are finding that by trying prayer power they feel better, work better, do better, sleep better, are better.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Thanksgiving is the power that transforms desire and satisfaction, love and possession, into life, that fulfills everything in the world, given to us by God, into knowledge of God and communion with him.2

The written word is far more powerful than simply a reminder: it recreates the past in the present, and gives us, not the familiar remembered thing, but the glittering intensity of the summoned-up hallucination.

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former.

I couldn't receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost because I was waiting for some supernatural power to take over my tongue and make me talk. It never did.

God's Word is so powerful. It's sharper than a two-edged sword. (Heb. 4:12.) With the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you have God's power and God's Word working in you.

In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains.

there was yet the assurance of such power in the preparation of the whole, that we knew her to be merely running over the chords of our appetite with preliminary savors, as a musician acquaints his touch with the keys of an unfamiliar piano before breaking into brilliant and triumphant execution. Within a week she had mastered

Si las revoluciones no se hacen con palabras, las ideas no se implantan con decretos.

a silent concave of puppet buffoons neither eagles nor jaguars buzzard lawyers locuses wings of ink sawing mindibles ventriloquist coyotes peddlers of shadows beneficent satraps the cacomistle thief of hens the monument to the Rattle and its snake the altar to the mauser and the machete the mausoleum of the epauletted cayman rhetoric sculpted in phrases of cement

Look at the power of the world, look at the power of the dust, look at the water.

Der Triumph der Prinzipien über Instinkte

La poesía es el punto de intersección entre el poder divino y la libertad humana.

Sorprendido por el nuevo instrumento e irritado por sus poderes de reproducción inmediata, el poeta olvidaba que detrás de la lente fotográfica hay un hombre: una sensibilidad y una fantasía. Un punto de vista.

Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, Fear not!

the Communists when taking power in Russia of course became successors to an old expansionist empire, in much the same way as the American revolutionaries developed out of the British empire. In both cases the ideologies that justified intervention had developed from concerns that were formed in earlier centuries, under different regimes.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.