Quotes About Power

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.

All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality.

Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This is my declaration.

When you believe, it activates God's power.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.