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Quotes About Power

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
~ Amber Valletta
Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.
~ Andre Carson
You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.
~ Azadeh Moaveni
God Gives Birth To gods!
~ Chris Oyakhilome
Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
~ Tony Campolo
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
~ Tony Campolo
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
~ Xenophanes
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
~ Mark Twain
God's more in control than we are. Obviously you still take all the precautions and safety measures inside your car.
~ Matt Kenseth
God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.
~ Max Lucado
I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.
~ Mel Brooks
No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.
~ Michael Cadnum
In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.
~ Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre
I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.
~ Norman Lear
I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done
~ Peter Criss
I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
~ Philip Levine
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
~ Plato
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
~ Pliny the Elder
There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.
~ Rhetta Hughes
The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.
~ Rick Dees
The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
~ Robert Williams Buchanan