Quotes about Power

For if I believe the promise of God, I am certain that my life is pleasing to God and is superior to all the orders, since it makes a heavenly man, a conqueror of death, an heir of eternal life, and one who tramples the devil underfoot, as is stated in Ps. 91:13: "You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and serpent you will trample underfoot." This is the strength and particular power of Christians.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

The superiority of spiritual power over sensuous is the central point of Christian Science.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love