Quotes About Power

The length and power of the sword is dependent upon the amount of Word you have hidden in your spirit.

The Word of God works when you take the instructions, follow them, speak them, and act upon them.

Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun.

I thought without his tongue we'd be back in control! And it worked! His tongue is no more!

When you start with wussie mortals, you get wussie demons. Sure, they steal souls and rend flesh occasionally, but they choke up in a pinch.

As I learn about pest control, it reminds me of international relations - fraught with unintended consequences and shifting alliances and deals, a place where the enemy of my enemy is my friend and has always been my friend and will always be my friend, until the next shift in the balance of power when it's suddenly the other way around. The whole thing is a delicate dance (...)

Andrew Murray, escritor sudafricano del siglo diecinueve, dijo una vez: "El poder de la oración depende casi en su totalidad de nuestro entendimiento de a quién está dirigida y de lo que decimos".5 Cuando la vida nos hiere, eso es más importante que el hecho de llorar en los brazos de Dios como un niño que se mece en sus brazos, recordando que Él es el primero y principal Abba, el Padre.

prayer can detonate mission.

I am convinced, however, that our constant activity is fruitless without first making that humble act of kneeling to pray. I am convinced that prayer is not only our greatest privilege, but also our greatest source of power.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.

Here's the question: Will we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts too? It'll mean more tears, more listening. It may even be the reason why so many of us struggle with our own personal burdens and heartaches - God is allowing us to feel the pain, to be weak and broken so that our prayers have power.

Until that night, the well-fed, respectable whites had convinced themselves that slaves loved being slaves.

Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.

When we fight against and/or hide from unpleasant or painful sensations and feelings, we generally make things worse. The more we avoid them, the greater is the power they exert upon our behavior and sense of well-being. What is not felt remains the same or is intensified, generating a cascade of virulent and corrosive emotions. This forces us to fortify our methods of defense, avoidance and control. This is the vicious cycle created by trauma.

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed -- but only just -- in the middle of the twentieth century.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

I am the scourge of God

WASHINGTON LOVES the ones who grease its gears. But history only remembers the ones who shift them," the late Washington Post writer Marjorie Williams wrote of Baker.

Trump was often just one yes-man away from doing what he wanted. One attorney general. One military commander. One vice president.