Quotes About Omnipotence

An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

Porque la autoridad de Dios representa a Dios mismo, mientras que su poder representa sus hechos.

If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. —JACQUES-MARIE-LOUIS MONSABRÉ

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Why would anyone want to be God? he asked. It's a terrible occupation.

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

I don't question the omnipotence of belief.

For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they believe an omnipotent God should do. It reasons that if God is all powerful, then certainly He would not have taken millions of years to make the earth.

Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.

who can carry The incineration of a Universe?

They then easily moved on to the faith-destroying, even blasphemous idea that everything that happens in this world is caused by God.

The Gods have no mercy, that's why they're Gods.

He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.

What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces....Your guy can walk in the door and promise training in something he personally doesn't know how to do, and not even realize he's bullshitting about his own capabilities. It's a special kind of gullibility....

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.

all power is given you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do.

Goethe says: truth repels, but delusion attracts, because truth presents us as limited, while delusion presents us as omnipotent. Moreover, truth repels because it is fragmented and incomprehensible, while delusion is coherent and logical.

God is not constrained by the limits of our understanding.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Dios fuera del tiempo sería omnipotente, pero ya no podría socorrernos puesto que nuestros actos se sitúan en el tiempo. Si Dios trasciende el tiempo, ya conoce el futuro. ¿Por qué habría de preocuparse del progreso de la lucha de los hombres contra el mal si ya conoce todo con antelación?.

Tuhan maha kuasa. Kalau Dia membatasi diri-Nya hanya dengan melakukan apa-apa yang baik, Dia tidak bisa disebut Maha Kuasa; itu berarti Dia hanya menguasai satu bagian alam semesta, dan ada orang lain yang lebih berkuasa daripada-Nya, yang mengawasi dan menilai tindakan-tindakan-Nya.