Quotes About Power

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

We live, deaf to the land beneath us,Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,But where there's so much as half a conversationThe Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.

One by one forging his laws, to be flungLike horseshoes at the head, the eye, or the groin.And every killing is a treatFor the broad-chested Ossete.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty's sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.

by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God.

When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then, with all His almighty power, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us.

The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the human spirit; it creates an inner invincibility.     If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength.

If it is an impossibility, it is the thing we have to ask. If it is not an impossible thing, it is not a real disturbance. God will do the absolutely impossible.

It is not the thing we spend the most time on that moulds us most; the greatest element is the thing that exerts most power.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher. 

is of no value to God to give Him your life for death. He wants you to be a "living sacrifice," to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is the thing that is acceptable to God.

If we get away from dwelling on the tragedy of God on the Cross in our preaching, our preaching produces nothing. It will not transmit the energy of God to man; it may be interesting, but it will have no power. However, when we preach the Cross, the energy of God is released. "It pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. . . . we preach Christ crucified" (1 Corinthians 1:21, 23).

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint, and the lasting remembrance of our lives is of the Lord, not of us.

O Lord, unto Thee do I come that I might find grace to praise and worship Thee aright. Lord, lift up the light of Thy countenance upon us; send power and majestic grace.

Faith is the whole man rightly related to God by the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Never allow a truth of God that is brought home to your soul to pass without acting on it, not necessarily physically, but in will. Record it, with ink or with blood. The feeblest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is emancipated the second he acts; all the almighty power of God is on his behalf.