Quotes about Power
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
— St. Augustine
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
— St. Augustine
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
— Francis de Sales
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
— Francis de Sales
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When the Word, by the power of the Spirit, is heard, embraced, and enjoyed, we are strengthened to resist the flesh and to savor the Son.
— Sam Storms
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
— Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
— Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
— Samuel Rutherford
Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
— Samuel Rutherford