Quotes About Omnipotence

God is a sea of infinite substance.

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

She, who does not see herself, is thus seen, in others. Therein lies the omnipotence of this substance whereof she is made, without any particular ties.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

In fact, even Aquinas dissolved the fatal problem of natural, physical evil by tinkering with God's omnipotence. As Baron von Hugel noted, Aquinas said that the Divine Omnipotence must not be taken as the power to effect any imaginable thing, but only to effect what is within the nature of things.

For this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone the things that have once been done. (Quoting Agathon)

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;

And God said: DELETE lines One to Aleph. LOAD. RUN. And the Universe ceased to exist. Then he pondered for a few aeons, sighed, and added: ERASE. It never had existed

Quando aquele mar de fogo se expandiu abaixo dele, Bowman devia ter sentido medo, mas, curiosamente, agora sentia apenas uma ligeira apreensão. Não que sua mente estivesse entorpecida de maravilhas. A lógica lhe dizia que ele certamente estava sob a proteção de alguma inteligência controladora e quase onipotente.

the principle which controls magic, and the technique of the animistic method of thought, is "Omnipotence of Thought.

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual's own intellectual operations, from the belief in the 'omnipotence of thoughts', which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics.

Compassion limits even the power of God.

Jumalat eivät voi tehdä mitä eivät tahdo.

When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.

Somewhere behind the bland emotionless labels favored by contemporary culture lies a tangled realm of unmentioned motives and murky passions, where petroleum – the black blood of the earth, as shamans and loremasters in a surprisingly large number of cultures call it – has become an anchor for fantasies of omnipotence and dreams of destiny, and that realm must be confronted directly in order make sense of where our civilization is headed.

If it be said, that an Omnipotent Creator, though under no necessity of employing contrivances such as roan must use, thought fit to do so in order to leave traces by which man might recognize his creative hand, the answer is that this equally supposes a limit to his omnipotence. For if it was his will that men should know that they themselves and the world are his work, he, being omnipotent, had only to will that they should be aware of it.

The might of God isn't infinite energy which could break out anywhere and do anything; it's not a shapeless force. God's might is God's might, the infinite resourcefulness of the God of grace.

Que el Dios omnipotente haga que ese hombre tenga misericordia de vosotros, y os suelte al otro hermano vuestro y a este Benjamín. Y si he de ser privado de mis hijos, que lo sea».

everything leads us to assume that man is the last caprice nature has allowed herself.