Quotes about Power

You will never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

When we send the whole church to build the church (instead of leaving it to the religious professionals), God's power is unleashed in full force.

The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

Nothing is more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a man or woman who has found the unceasing wellspring of heaven's life.

So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.

The release of power accelerated and released forces that were both positive and negative. When we understand the accelerating power of miracles, we understand why Jesus so often told those He healed to tell no one about it. Because when they broadcasted His miracles, it fueled the envy of His enemies. When their envy reached its fullness, His enemies crucified Him. By fueling their envy, every miracle took Jesus a step closer to His crucifixion.

When we learn to dwell in the secret place of the Most High, we're positioned to discover the key to true kingdom fruitfulness. Reproductive power is unlocked in the shadow of the Almighty.

The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.

In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites.

I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

In my name they will drive out demons… they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.