Quotes about Power

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

as you believe so shall it be done unto you.

In his work The Book of Church Growth, Thom Rainer explained, "Prayer is the power behind the principles. There simply is no more important principle in church growth than prayer. The prayers of the early church unleashed the power of God to add thousands to the church. It happened then. It is happening in some churches today. And it can happen in your church."

When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.

You can move a leader's feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.