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Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
— Herman Melville
When I rise in the morning and go to sleep at night, I will think of you, O King. For you are great and powerful and majestic and full of splendor. The entire kingdom is yours. Truly you are lifted high above everything.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.
— Jerry Bridges
Oh yes, it exists, and the news media is always quick to highlight examples of anti-black racial hostility, but it is not the all-powerful, institutional beast so many say it is. But once people believe racism is their main problem, they become subject to that idea, and it prevents them from progressing.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.
— Ernest Hemingway
the scientific data point powerfully toward the existence of a Creator and that the historical evidence for the resurrection establishes convincingly that Jesus is divine.
— Lee Strobel
If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!
— David O. McKay
Dreams are powerful. It is possible to so attach our emotions to them that a dream can become a taskmaster we serve, rather than an assignment or goal we steward.
— Dutch Sheets
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
— Jimmy Carter
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Begin to see that when we say God will "justify" rather than merely "acquit," the action has a reconstituting force — hence the insufficiency of the courtroom metaphor "to acquit." God's righteousness is the same thing as his justice, and his justice is powerfully at work justifying, which does not mean excusing, passing over, or even "forgiving and forgetting," but actively making right that which is wrong.
— Fleming Rutledge
If one function of low self-esteem is to keep high-status people satisfied with your deference, then its level, strictly speaking, should depend on how much deference it takes to do that; you may, in the presence of someone powerful, feel a deeper humility—about your intelligence, for example—than an objective observer would see as warranted.
— Robert Wright