Quotes About Power

confess them—"Lord, I have had misgivings about Thee, I have not believed in Thy wits apart from my own; I have not believed in Thine Almighty power apart from my finite understanding of it.

All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.

If I detect these misgivings in myself, I should bring them into the light and confess them openly—"Lord, I have had misgivings about You. I have not believed in Your abilities, but only my own. And I have not believed in Your almighty power apart from my finite understanding of it.

It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us.

The thing that approaches the very limits of His power is the very thing we as disciples of Jesus ought to believe He will do. We impoverish and weaken His ministry in us the moment we forget He is almighty. The impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus for Him to be our comforter or our sympathizer, but we refrain from approaching Him as our Almighty God.

Lord, the range of Thy power, the touch of Thy grace, the breathing of Thy Spirit, how I long for these to bring me face to face with Thee; Lord, by Thy grace cause me to appear before Thee.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

There are some things over which we may lose faith if we have confidence in God's power only. There is so much that looks like the mighty power of God that is not.

It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit.

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

In reality, however, it is out of the power either of heads or hands to alter in any way the destiny of machine-technics, for this has developed out of inward spiritual necessities and is now correspondingly maturing towards its fulfilment and end. Today we stand on the summit, at the point when the fifth act is beginning. The last decisions are taking place, the tragedy is closing.

War is the creator, hunger the destroyer, of all great things.

The man makes History, the woman is History.

The will-to-power is intolerant — all that is Faustian wills to reign alone. The Apollinian feeling, on the contrary, with its world of coexistent individual things, is tolerant as a matter of course.

Der Farbige durchschaut den Weißen, wenn er von "Menschheit" und ewigem Frieden redet. Er wittert die Unfähigkeit und den fehlenden Willen, sich zu verteidigen.

Heute leben wir so widerstandslos unter der Wirkung dieser geistigen Artillerie, dass kaum jemand den inneren Abstand gewinnt, um sich das Ungeheuerliche dieses Schauspiels klarzumachen. Der Wille zur Macht in rein demokratischer Verkleidung hat sein Meisterstück damit vollendet, dass dem Freiheitsgefühl der Objekte mit der vollkommensten Knechtung, die es je gegeben hat, sogar noch geschmeichelt wird.

Wer auf dieser Mühle stirbt, bestimme ich!

The narcissistic gratifications involved in psychoanalytic training, such as professional advancement, the unconscious misuse of the therapeutic relationship as an expression of power, basking in patients' idealizations, and the facilitation of vicarious living through patients may unfortunately remain unrecognized for many years. The

The financial security of older training analysts in power and the distraction from the ordinary uncertainties of aging may play an important role here.

training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification by exercising control over a small social organization.

Woe to the statesman who does not seek in these times a case for war that still holds up after the war is over.

Politics is an inexact science.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.