Quotes About Powerlessness

Sabía lo rápido que podían romperse las cosas. Hacías todo lo que podías. Te ocupabas del mundo. Confiabas en estar a salvo. Pero aun así, ella lo sabía. Podía llegar aplastándolo todo, y no podías hacer nada.

Sex slaves can rarely defend themselves, and the dead are even worse off in this instance than the living. The

what about the bullies?' 'They're the worst thing in the world. It's a big circle. They hurt people. The people they hurt feel powerless and go on to hurt other people when they're able to. And the original bullies were once hurt themselves. The wheel keeps on turning. Unless you step off.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

You didn't do it, and the sooner you understand that, the better it will be for you and your marriage. You couldn't have done it. You're simply not that powerful and not that wise. You and I like to think that it was all our initiative, but it wasn't. When you face the fact that your marital story is all about the wisdom and will of Another, your understanding of marriage completely changes forever.

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

Instead, we accept our powerlessness over the fact of the situation and then calmly do what we can to improve the situation. We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.

De postmoderne mens lijdt aan een vreemde dissociatie, een nieuwe vorm van persoonlijkheidsverdubbeling. We klagen het systeem aan, staan er vijandig tegenover en voelen ons machteloos om het te veranderen. Anderzijds gedragen we ons op een manier die het systeem voortdurend bevestigt en uitbreidt.

Added to residential segregation was the powerlessness of blacks to keep vice out of their communities.

I'm paralyzed for an instant as it all lands, everything that's escaped me, like a bomb detonating in my mind. How Caleb's profile is a perfect fit for the kind of man who might flip violently, becoming a killer, a monster. A childhood fractured by abandonment and chaos, his father a tyrant and an alcoholic. The way he'd lost Jenny, the person he loved best in the world, completely powerless to save her. Then the case going unsolved, her killer never found.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.

The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”

So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.