Top 1200 Divine Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The power of love far outweighs the power of will.

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

Quality combines people power and process power.

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the rays from the sun. The Eucharist was the oracle which she consulted, the grace which she followed. But Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed Him in His mortal days. In His sacramental state He continues to adore His Father by His depthless self-abasement. He is still the Mediator and Interceder with divine goodness for the salvation of men

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.