Quotes about Power

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.

He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses.

Prayer does not equip us for greater works—prayer is the greater work.

There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty's sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.

by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God.

When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then, with all His almighty power, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us.