Quotes About Omnipotence

Since divine sovereignty is absolute, divine judgment is therefore certain – because God is sovereign, there will be a judgment.

There is no standard higher than God to which God himself is accountable and by which God himself is judged. Therefore, it is impossible to accuse God of doing anything morally wrong.

God has the power of self-existence, meaning that his existence does not depend on anyone or anything, since there was nothing besides him at the beginning.

Can God be so powerful as to surrender all power? And the answer was yes!

You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

claimed that God by virtue of His absolute power

Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; … To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.]

O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]

Etatism, as a theory, is the doctrine of the omnipotence of the State, and, as a policy, the attempt to regulate all mundane affairs by authoritative commandment and prohibition. The ideal society of etatism is a particular sort of socialistic community; it is usual in discussions involving this ideal society to speak of State Socialism, or, in some connexions, of Christian Socialism.

And if it once is so, it is so always; no one can go back, and he whom God has forgotten, is forgotten for ever.

Kill them all, and you are a god.

What's the point of a god who never intervenes?

y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still have that there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science has given him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self government, through dangers and distortions and failures, is the American cause. Faith in self government, when all is said and done, is faith in the eventual goodness of man

God was always there. He sat beside us during the doctors' consultations, as we waited the long vigils outside the operating room, as we rejoiced in the miracle of a brief recovery, as we agonized when hope ebbed away, and the doctors confessed there was no longer anything they could do. They were helpless, and we were helpless, and in His way, God, standing by us in our hour of need, God in His infinite wisdom and mercy and loving kindness, God in all His omnipotence, was helpless too.

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all destroy all stop the inevitable and express the inexpressible.

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

Then to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vaine, Under what torments inwardly I groane; While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, With

But past who can recall, or don undoe? Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate

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