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Quotes About Omnipotence

God is just, merciful, good, wise, loving.
~ Peter Scazzero
It both sustains and kills—like a God.
~ Peter Shaffer
The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume summed up the dilemma succinctly when he wrote of God: 'Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then
~ Peter Stanford
I glanced around at all that customized abstraction: internal feedback, lucidly dreamed. "You're omnipotent in here. Desire anything, imagine anything; there it is. I'd thought it would have changed you more.
~ Peter Watts
Carrillo asked him about his belief in Satan and Richard readily admitted that he followed the ways of Satan, walked the left-hand path, and wholly believed in the existence of Satan and his omnipotence over all things in this world and the spirit world. "It's he who really rules," said Richard. Gil turned the conversation back to El Paso, where Richard said he'd been brought up a Catholic, and told Gil his mother took him to church all the time.
~ Philip Carlo
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
~ Pierre Corneille
Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Though omnipotence may seem to be endangered by the threshold passages and life awakenings, protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world. One has only to know and trust, and the ageless guardians will appear. Having responded to his own call, and continuing to follow courageously as the consequences unfold, the hero finds all the forces of the unconscious at his side.
~ Joseph Campbell
A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.
~ A.W. Pink
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him" (2Ch 16:9).
~ A.W. Pink
Through cruelty force confesses its powerlessness to achieve omnipotence . . . We see weakness dawning at the very height of force. Unable to admit that total destruction is impossible, the conqueror can only reply to the mute defiance of his defenseless adversary with an ever-growing violence.
~ Rachel Bespaloff
god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material world below.
~ Ramsay MacMullen
If God can do anything, then He surely can even allow evil and call it good. Why does He have to explain it? Surely, if omnipotence means all-powerful without even logical or rational limitation, He can allow evil to exist and not see any incoherence in it. And if God can do anything He pleases why can't He simply be incoherent as well? That may be irrational to the skeptic, but does not limitless power also mean the power to be irrational without justification?
~ Ravi Zacharias
If you have indulged in fear, worry, and other destructive forms of thinking, the remedy is to recognize the omnipotence of your subconscious mind and decree freedom, happiness, and perfect health. Your subconscious mind, being creative and one with your divine source, will proceed to create the freedom and happiness, which you have earnestly decreed.
~ Joseph Murphy
If you have indulged in fear, worry, and other destructive forms of thinking, the remedy is to recognize the omnipotence of your subconscious mind and decree freedom, happiness, and perfect health.
~ Joseph Murphy
Me quede estupefacto. Estos chiquillos... No solo nos creen omnipotentes cuando vivimos, sino que además nos suponen toda clase de poderes después de la muerte" Pierre
~ Daniel Pennac
He glanced at the ruins on the breakfast table and shot Umpily a contemptuous glance. "Moderation is not your strong suit, my lord." "Moderation insults perfection, your Omnipotence." It was an old saying of Ishipole's, but Umpily thought he had used it rather well. The
~ Dave Duncan
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
~ Aeschylus
I'd be Doctor Manhattan, a character from the Watchman.' He can do everything, he's the best superhero. There's no other superhero that could beat him in a fight.
~ Joel Fry
As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
~ Eddie Marsan
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
~ Richard Dawkins
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
~ Richard Dawkins
God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.
~ Richard Dawkins
it has not escaped the notice of logicians that omniscience and omnipotence are mutually incompatible. If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't change his mind about his intervention, which means he is not omnipotent.
~ Richard Dawkins