Quotes About Dominion

you will not be master of my body & my property

But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.

The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of mortals.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

The queen of night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land

It is no diminution of power not to be able to do things which are no object of power.

You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

The fight has been going on since...dominion in this world has found itself capable of sustentation by the exercise of fear as to the world to come.

For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary but also expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.

Gezegenlere bir gün hükmedebilirsiniz. Ama y?ld?zlar insanlara göre deÄŸil.

From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions — even when they worship a goddess — as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion.

Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia-forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity-you are in Christ.

To express it in the bold words of Professor Murray: 'sin may be said to have ruled over him [Christ]'. But he broke its dominion, and because we are united to him he has thereby broken its dominion over us.

CORO Molte potenze sono tremende ma nessuna lo è più dell'uomo.»

What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island-- you and you alone.