Quotes About Powers

Be it so, therefore, that these gifts we intend are not in themselves saving graces, yet are they not to be despised; for they are, as we shall show, the "powers of the world to come," by means whereof the kingdom of Christ is preserved, carried on, and propagated in the world.

I've decided she's worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

The government has incredible powers at its disposal, and when it abuses those powers, someone has to stand up.

Jesus on the cross is best understood as suffering, again, an imperial execution.[6] When interpreted as that kind of death—a torture-death—the narrated stories of Jesus become ones about vulnerability amidst and challenge to the powers that visit imperial terror on subjugated peoples.

Internal Security Act, which gave the police virtually unlimited powers to arrest and detain without trial.

Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.

The powers cannot see those who have put on the perfect light, and they cannot seize them. One puts on the light in the mystery of union.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Frederick was now called "the Great" throughout Europe; and Prussia took her place among the "Five Great Powers." The

But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history, and since sensation is a reconstitution, it pre-supposes in me sediments left behind by some previous constitution, so that I am, as a sentient subject, a repository stocked with natural powers at which I am the first to be filled with wonder.

Capitalism was taken away from my life. To maintain this hair, I cannot invest in the system. Not a cent. I live from the powers, like Daniel, like Joshua. I live like Jesus Christ. I live spirit, because I am spirit. If I live in spirit, I have to walk in spirit.

Puck was a genuine pain in the butt, but he had powers and those powers made him useful.

saw darkness visible. I saw its true face." "Why then, after all you had seen, did you set your feet on this path, if you believe we are the powers of darkness?" "Because I thought that darkness had only one or two faces. It took me a long time to learn that it has many, and that its worst face masquerades as light.

A NEW AGE OF DRAGONS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. THE POWERFUL CREATURES WILL RETURN TO RULE THE WORLD ONCE MORE, BUT THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT. THIS TIME, THEY WILL HAVE ALLIES. WHO WILL HELP THEM? AROUND THE WORLD, SOME YOUNG HUMANS ARE MAKING A STRANGE DISCOVERY. THEY ARE LEARNING THAT THEY WERE BORN WITH DRAGON BLOOD — BLOOD THAT GIVES THEM AMAZING POWERS.

Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and brings them into the powerful sphere of Christ's benevolent lordship and community.

The defeat of sin and evil powers on the cross was being translated into the defeat of sin and evil powers in people's real lives.

This idea is not new. In the 1920s the great Harvard psychologist William McDougall also suggested that religious miracles might be the result of the collective psychic powers of large numbers of worshipers.

The rebel groups were loosely coordinated, inspired by millenarian hopes for the coming of the Maitreya Buddha and Manichaean-tinged beliefs about the imminent arrival of a saviour, a prince of light, who would defeat the powers of darkness.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

All yogis are automatically the candidates initiated into the art of secrecy. Simply, because silence is the only main basis for attaining mental and spiritual powers.