Quotes About Power

Scripture tells us that God does punish sinners with both natural and "man-made" disasters, from the everyday mishaps and inconveniences to things like floods, earthquakes, plagues, famines, blizzards, and so on. All these things occur by God's sovereign decree and power.

God awakens the intelligence of his chosen ones to perceive the Bible's wisdom and power, and to realize that the book is identical to the voice of God.

God not only sustains and controls all things, but he sovereignly sustains and controls all things. He can bring to life or put to death, cause to move or cause to stop, and create or destroy, all at his will and pleasure.

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16).

it is God's righteous decree to reveal his wrath and his power (v. 22), and to show forth his mercy toward the elect (v. 23). All things are done by God's will and power, and he needs no excuse for his decrees and actions.

God has sovereignly foreordained their complete salvation before the foundation of the world, and because he powerfully preserves them after their conversion. After regeneration, the Spirit of God continues to work within them, powerfully causing them to strive for true knowledge and holiness.

Revelation 4:11 says, "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.

God possesses absolute and unlimited rights over his creation.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Jesus is superior to any man, and he has regenerated our spirits and predestined us to conform to his image. The Holy Spirit is superior to any earthly thing, and his power clothes each believer with a heavenly quality that cannot be matched or mimicked by the non-Christian. The Christian is a superior kind of human because God is superior to any man or woman, and God indwells the Christian in all his fullness.

In many ways, you appear less than others. But by this power from heaven, you can be something more than the rest of men. You can be more. You can be better, stronger, more useful. You can live a more meaningful and significant life. Believe the promise, and receive the power.

John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

God has the power of self-existence, meaning that his existence does not depend on anyone or anything, since there was nothing besides him at the beginning.

It was five forty-nine on the evening of 5 May 1821, and Napoleon was not quite fifty-two years old.

Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss a kind of parenthood—false pregnancy perhaps—but as Van Gogh said, "If, defrauded of the power to create physically, a man tries to create thoughts in place of children, he is still part of humanity"...a big part.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes

Biri Rembrandt'? seviyor diyelim, ama ciddi seviyor, o kiÅŸi Tanr?'n?n var olduÄŸunu bilir ve derinden inan?r. Biri Frans?z Devrimi'nin tarihini inceliyor diyelim, o kiÅŸi imans?z olamaz, en büyük ÅŸeylerin gerisinde de tanr?sal bir erkin kendini gösterdiÄŸini anlar.

They are vast stretches of corn under troubles skies, and I did not need to go out of my way to try to express sadness and the extreme of loneliness...I almost think that these canvases will tell you what I cannot say in words, the health and fortifying power that I see in the country.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create. And if, defrauded of the power to create physically, a man tries to create thoughts in place of children, he is still very much part of humanity.