Top 1200 Divine Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. It is not given to us to know fully what that purpose is, but I think we may be sure of one thing, and that is that our country is intended to do all it can, in cooperating with other nations to help created peace and preserve peace in the world. It is given to defend the spiritual values-the moral code-against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to relate. I need an image in order to carry on an intimate conversation with what is so vast, amorphous, mysterious, and holy that it becomes ungraspable. I mean, really, how to you become intimate with Divine Reality? Or the Absolute?

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.