Quotes About Power

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

A man with God is always in the majority.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.

Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.

The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.