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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. — © Jonathan Edwards
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — © Frederick Franck
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.
I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.
In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.
Midterm elections, by nature, just aren't about the party that's out of power. But presidential years are different.
It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.
If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]
We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.
The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.
It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature - because the boat has sunk - or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.
Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance
In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.
Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature. — © Princess Nokia
Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — © Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.
My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Because we have more women in power now, frankly we are less likely to go to war. It's not in our nature really.
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.
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